The cockroach cartoon controversy of Iran newspaper arose over a cartoon, published in the Iranian holiday-magazine of Iran-e-jomee, drawn by the cartoonist Mana Neyestani, an ethnic Iranian Azeri. The cartoon, published in the children's section of the newspaper on 12 May 2006, allegedly insulted the Azerbaijani people by depicting a child and cockroach speaking in Persian together. In the cartoon when the cockroach doesn't understand the child, he then decides to talk to the cockroach in an imaginary cockroach language(saying "soosoo soosking sisko sooski sooskung"). But the cockroach doesn't even understand its own language and replays in the Azerbaijani language this time, saying "namana?" ("what?"). However, namana is also a word which some times used in Persian speaking population, too. In other sections of the cartoon, the cockroach starts back to speaking in Persian again (the second picture).