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Iran closes French institute to retaliate for Khamenei cartoons
[IsraelTimes] Tehran says shuttering of research institute a ’first step’ in reaction to Charlie Hebdo...  A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...caricatures published in support of protests across Iran. “The ministry is ending the activities of the French Institute for Research in Iran as a first step,” the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement, a day after Tehran had warned Paris of consequences. IFRI, affiliated to the French foreign ministry, is a historical and archeological institute founded in 1983 after the merger of the French Archaeological Delegation in Iran  ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....and the French Institute of Iranology in Tehran. Located in the center of Tehran, it had been closed for many years but was reopened under the 2013-2021 presidency of the moderate president Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderatepresident, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... as a sign of warming bilateral relations. Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-06 |
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