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Iran protests new cartoons published this week in the French satirical weekly. Tehran warns that this act “will not go without an effective and firm response”
“Charlie Hebdo” was the target of an attack on January 7, 2015. 12 people lost their lives. Here, a fresco by artist Christian Guemy, known as C215 in Paris, in January 2022.
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Iran warned Paris on Wednesday that it would react following the publication of dozens of “insulting” cartoons of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The cartoons were chosen as part of a contest launched in December, as protests grew in Iran following the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd arrested for allegedly breaking the country’s strict dress code. for women.
Charlie Hebdo announced in December that this “international competition to produce caricatures” of Khamenei aimed to support “Iranians who are fighting for their freedom”.
“The insulting and indecent act of a French publication by publishing cartoons once morest religious and political authority will not go without an effective and firm response,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Twitter.
“We will not allow the French government to overstep the bounds. He definitely took the wrong path,” he added.
Authorities say hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed and thousands more arrested in what they generally describe as “riots”. They accuse foreign powers and opposition groups of stirring up trouble.
Special edition
Charlie Hebdo published the cartoons in a special edition for the anniversary of the deadly attack on its Paris office on January 7, 2015. publish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
The publication of these cartoons caused a lot of anger in Muslim countries, and the 2015 attacks brought a wave of support to the magazine around the world.
(AFP)
