Tehran — Iran warned France on Wednesday it will reply after “insulting” cartoons depicting Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been printed within the satirical journal Charlie Hebdo. The weekly had printed dozens of cartoons on the identical day ridiculing the best spiritual and political determine within the Islamic republic.
The journal mentioned the cartoons had been a part of a contest it launched in December in assist of the protests triggered by the September 16 demise in police custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd who was arrested for allegedly violating the nation’s strict costume code for girls.
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“The insulting and indecent act of a French publication in publishing cartoons against the religious and political authority will not go without an effective and decisive response,” tweeted Iran‘s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
“We will not allow the French government to go beyond its bounds. They have definitely chosen the wrong path,” he mentioned.
The French journal mentioned the competition aimed “to support the struggle of Iranians who are fighting for their freedom.”
Iranian authorities say a whole bunch of individuals, together with members of the safety forces, have been killed and 1000’s arrested in what they typically describe as “riots,” and have accused hostile international powers and opposition teams of stoking the unrest.
Charlie Hebdo printed the caricatures in a particular version to mark the anniversary of a lethal assault on its Paris workplace on January 7, 2015 by assailants who mentioned they had been appearing on behalf of al Qaeda to avenge the journal’s resolution to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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