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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shweta Sharma

Iran shuts part of French embassy in protest over Charlie Hebdo caricatures of Ayatollah Khamenei

AP

Iran has shut down the cultural wing of the French embassy in Tehran and summoned the French ambassador to formally protest the publication of offensive caricatures of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Iran’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said France has “no right to insult the sanctities of other Muslim countries in the garb of freedom of expression”.

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