AA/Nice/Feïza Ben Mohamed
A demonstration was held on Sunday in front of the French embassy in Tehran, in reaction to the publication of caricatures of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, the participants “denounced (…) offensive caricatures” of the leader of the revolution.
This event comes as the French ambassador to Iran, Nicolas Roche, was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry on January 4 last on this thorny subject.
Earlier in the day on Sunday, the spokesman for diplomacy, Nasser Kanaani, published a series of tweets once more castigating the approach of Charlie Hebdo.
“Given its historical past of colonialism, violation of human rights and freedom of expression inside and outside the country, France has no right to justify the insult to the values other states and followers of religions, in the name of freedom of expression,” he pointed out.
Nasser Kanaani also believed that “what French political leaders must respect are the obvious and fundamental principles of international relations, that is to say mutual respect, non-interference in the internal affairs of others and respect for the national and religious values and sanctities of other States”.
It should be noted that Tehran decided, the day following the publication of these cartoons, to close the IFRI (French Institute for Research in Iran), while tensions between the two countries had already been at their peak for several months.
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