Iran close France institute to protest Khamenei cartoon

 In response to the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's publication of cartoons depicting the Islamic republic's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran announced the closure of a French research institute in Tehran on Thursday.

 



As part of a special edition commemorating the anniversary of the deadly 2015 attack on its Paris office that killed 12 people, including some of its most well-known cartoonists, the magazine published the caricatures in support of the months-long protests in Iran.


A day after Tehran warned Paris of the consequences, the Iranian foreign ministry issued a statement stating that "the ministry is ending the activities of the French Institute for Research (I-F R-I) in Iran as a first step". 


"The authors of such hatred" must be held accountable by the French government, it added, calling for "a serious fight against anti-Islamism and Islamophobia" in France.


The death in custody on September 16 of Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, 22, who was arrested for allegedly violating the country's strict dress code for women, shook Iran for more than three months.


Iran Human Rights, based in Oslo, claims that protests that Iranian officials typically refer to as "riots" have resulted in the deaths of at least 476 people as a result of the government's response of a crackdown.


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, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein A M-I T A-B D O L-A H-I A-N said in response.


On Wednesday, Iran's foreign ministry also summoned the French ambassador, Nicolas Roche.


According to Nasser K-N-A N-I, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry, "France has no right to insult the sanctifies of other Muslim countries and nations under the pretext of freedom of expression."


The French Institute of Iran O L O G Y in Tehran and the French Archaeological Delegation in Iran merged in 1983 to form the historical and archeological institute I-F R-I, which is affiliated with the French foreign ministry.

 

It was closed for many years and was in the middle of Tehran. However, during the moderate president Hassan R O U H-A N-I presidency from 2013 to 2021, it was reopened as a sign that relations between the two countries were improving


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Even within France, Charlie Hebdo's style is contentious, with supporters hailing it as an advocate for free speech and detractors labelling it as overly provocative.


However, the magazine was the target of a deadly attack in January 2015 by gunmen who claimed to be seeking retribution for the weekly's decision to publish blasphemous sketches of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him).


The most recent issue featured a number of images of Khamenei and other clerics. Other cartoons made reference to the authorities' use of the death penalty to quell the protests.


R-I S, the director of Charlie Hebdo, wrote in an editorial that the cartoons are "a way to show our support for Iranian men and women who risk their lives to defend their freedom against the theocracy that has oppressed them since 1979". R-I S is also known as Laurent Sourisseau.


Catherine C O L O N-A, the French foreign minister, had stated prior to the institute's closure that "freedom of the press exists (in France) contrary to what is happening in Iran" and that blasphemy is not a crime in France.


She continued, "Iran's bad policy is that it uses violence against its own people", on the French television channel L C-I.


When asked about the dispute on Wednesday in Washington, State Department spokesman Ned Price stated that the United States stood "on the side of freedom of expression", regardless of whether "that’s in France, whether that’s in Iran, whether that’s anywhere in between."


Khamenei is given the lifetime appointment as the revolutionary leader's successor. It is against the law in Iran to criticize him outside everyday politics

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