Charlie Hebdo

Iran rebuked the French government and shut down a French cultural center in Tehran after the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published a series of ...

Iran has shut down a decades-old French research institute in response to cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that mocked the ...

The protesters have called for the overthrow of Iran’s ruling clerics in one of the biggest challenges to their rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought them to power. The paper drew fire for reprinting caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad that were originally published by a Danish magazine in 2005. Also in French law we do not have the notion of blasphemy.” On Thursday, there was a heavy security presence around the institute and the nearby French Embassy in central Tehran. Two French-born al-Qaida extremists attacked the newspaper’s office in 2015, killing 12 cartoonists, and it has been the target of other attacks over the years. On Wednesday, Iran summoned the French ambassador to complain about the cartoons.

Charlie Hebdo, famous for its ruthless, politically incorrect content, had published several user-submitted cartoons meant to support protesters in Iran.

The Iranian authorities have begun taking measures against France in response to the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's publication of cartoons of ...

Charlie Hebdo’s publication of a special “7 January” issue comes eight years after the terrorist shooting at the satirical weekly’s Paris headquarters on 7 January 2015. “We will not allow the French government to overstep the bounds,” Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote in a tweet, while a spokesman for his ministry said Iran "regards the government as responsible for this heinous, insulting and unwarranted act”. RSF also regards this latest pressure as an attempt to revive the fight to criminalise “defaming religions,” which would be disastrous for press freedom.