Iran has condemned as a “provocation” Charlie Hebdo’s republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to mark the opening of the trial into a 2015 attack on its offices by Islamist extremists.
In a statement issued late Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said the reissue of the cartoons was an “insult” to more than one billion Muslims around the world.
“The offensive act by the French publication... is a provocation,” the Ministry said.
“Any insult or disrespect towards Islam’s holy prophet... or the other prophets of God (the Jewish and Christian figures also recognised by Muslims)... is absolutely unacceptable,” it added.