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Iran shuts French institute in protest at Charlie Hebdo Khamenei cartoons

File photo of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian at a news conference in Moscow, Russia on August 31, 2022. © Maxim Shemetov, AP

Iran announced Thursday the closure of a Tehran-based French research institute in protest against cartoons of the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. 

"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.

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