Tehran: Iran France was warned on Wednesday after a satirical magazine published an “insulting” cartoon depicting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Charlie Hebdo.
The weekly published dozens of cartoons the same day mocking the Islamic Republic’s highest religious and political figure.
The magazine said the cartoons were part of a contest it launched in support of protests it launched in December following the September 16 custodial killings. Mehsa Aminian Iranian Kurd who was arrested for violating the country’s strict dress code for women.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian tweeted, “The insulting and disgraceful act of a French publication in publishing cartoons against religious and political authority will not go without an effective and decisive response.”
“We will not allow the French government to go beyond our borders. They have definitely chosen the wrong path.”
French magazine He said the competition was aimed at “supporting the struggle of Iranians who are fighting for their freedom”.
Iranian officials say hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed and thousands arrested in what they commonly describe as “riots”, and they blame hostile foreign powers and opposition groups for fomenting the unrest. Is.
The controversial Charlie Hebdo
French satirical magazines are no stranger to controversy, particularly in the Muslim world. In 2015, it published offensive sketches, which led to an attack on the magazine’s office on January 7, 2015, in which 12 people were killed.
The issue resurfaced later in 2020 when the magazine republished the sketches to coincide with the September 2 trial of 14 people accused of helping attackers turn guns on magazine staff.
A month later, a history teacher in France was beheaded after showing caricatures to his class. French President at the event dedicated to the teacher Emmanuel Macron What was the promise not to give up? [the] cartoon” and also made controversial comments against “Islamists”, who he said “want our future”.
This statement of the French President was criticized by the Muslim world.