Didn't want to retweet this story without doing some more research so I'm happy to report the National Library of New Zealand has multiple political cartoons online attesting to it
Benjamin McKean
Iran-New Zealand is honestly an interesting one. There were furious negotiations (daily headline stuff) with the first Ayatollah to protect the economic interests of the NZ mutton export industry. Muslim experts were hired en masse and rapidly made NZ the world’s largest exporter of halal meat.
