The French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, is once again under deadly threat for its latest cartoons. This time, the government of Iran is threatening retaliation over Charlie Hebdo's cartoons mocking the Ayatollah Khamenei, the highest religious and political figure in Iran.
On January 7, 2015, the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo was hit with a terrorist attack in retaliation for cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad. Twelve people were murdered.
The below article from today's Belgian French-language daily, La Libre, is translated by Fousesquawk.
(Viewer warning above link- The message on one of the cartoons says, "Mullahs, go back to where you came from".)
"This will not stand without an effective and firm response": Iran warns Paris after the publication of "insulting" caricatures by Charlie Hebdo
Iran warned Paris on Wednesday that it would react after the publication of "insulting" caricatures of the supreme head of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
The satirical weekly, earlier in the day, published dozens of caricatures featuring the highest religious and political personality of the Islamic Republic.
It concerns caricatures selected during the course of a competition launched in December, as demonstrations multiplied in Iran after the death in detention on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman arrested for allegedly violating the country's strict dress code applied to women.
"The insulting and indecent act of a French publication in publishing caricatures against the religious and political authority will not stand without an effective and firm response," declared the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahien, on Twitter.
In December, Charlie Hebdo had announced that this "international competition to produce caricatures of Khamenei was aimed at supporting the "Iranians who are fighting for their liberty".
The authorities state that hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed and thousands of others arrested in what they generally describe as "riots". They accuse foreign powers and opposition groups of stirring up the trouble.
Charlie Hebdo published the caricatures in a special edition on the anniversary of the deadly attack against its Paris office on January 7, 2015. That had been perpetrated by assailants declaring to have acted in the name of Al Qaida to avenge the decision of the paper to publish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.
The publication of these caricatures caused a lot of anger in Muslim countries, and the 2015 attacks brought a wave of support for the magazine around the world.
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