03:43Iran: Hundreds protest in Tehran over 'insulting’ Charlie Hebdo's Khamenei cartoons
Hundreds protested in front of the embassy of France in Tehran on Wednesday in response to French magazine Charlie Hebdo's comics of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
On Tuesday, Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iranian religious leaders last week marking the 2015 terror attacks on its offices, leaving 12 dead.
„The French government has insulted our leader and religious authority via a publication [Charlie Hebdo]", commented Mahdi Hammami, a Tehran resident. This shows that they are angry with our leader as our leader neutralised their plans. We come here to say that we are supporting our leader and our revolution."
In an exchange of tweets following last week’s publication, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that the French were on the „wrong path“ and that the cartoons were insulting. French FM Catherine Colonna replied that “the bad policy is the one followed by Iran.”
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Hundreds protested in front of the embassy of France in Tehran on Wednesday in response to French magazine Charlie Hebdo's comics of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
On Tuesday, Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iranian religious leaders last week marking the 2015 terror attacks on its offices, leaving 12 dead.
„The French government has insulted our leader and religious authority via a publication [Charlie Hebdo]", commented Mahdi Hammami, a Tehran resident. This shows that they are angry with our leader as our leader neutralised their plans. We come here to say that we are supporting our leader and our revolution."
In an exchange of tweets following last week’s publication, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that the French were on the „wrong path“ and that the cartoons were insulting. French FM Catherine Colonna replied that “the bad policy is the one followed by Iran.”