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Hezbollah urges France to punish Charlie Hebdo over Khamenei cartoons
[IsraelTimes] Tehran-backed Lebanese terror group urges government to discipline satirical weekly for images that ’flouted dignity of entire nation’...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... ’s powerful Hezbollah terror movement on Tuesday condemned cartoons of Iran’s supreme leader published last week by the French weekly Charlie Hebdo ...  A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe..., calling on Gay Paree to punish the satirical magazine. The magazine said the caricatures of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... were published in support of protests in Iran  ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....sparked by the death in jug of Mahsa Amini, after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country’s strict dress code for women. Tehran’s close ally Hezbollah called on "the French government to take firm measures to punish the perpetrators of this act, who attacked what is sacred and flouted the dignity of an entire nation." Khamenei "is not just the leader of a great country — he is a religious reference for tens of millions of followers," the Shiite movement said in a statement. Following the publication of the cartoons on Wednesday, Iran summoned the French ambassador to Tehran and closed a research institute affiliated with La Belle France’s foreign ministry. In Tehran on Sunday, dozens of Iranians — most of them religious seminary students — protested against the publication in front of La Belle France’s embassy and burned French flags. Charlie Hebdo, seen by supporters as a champion of freedom of speech and by critics as needlessly provocative, has a style that is controversial even within La Belle France. It has repeatedly caused diplomatic problems abroad for the French government, which has no links with the magazine but faces domestic pressure to defend its right to free speech in an officially secular country. In 2015 Charlie Hebdo’s Gay Paree offices were attacked by button men who killed 12 people, following the publication of caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-11 |
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