French charge d’affaires to Tehran Florent Aydalot was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Minister on Tuesday over the insistence of French officials to support the publication of caricatures in the country which insult the holy prophet of Islam. The deputy director of Foreign Ministry Department for European Affairs conveyed ...
The Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday stressed, via Twitter, that insulting 1.9B Muslims—& their sanctities—for the abhorrent crimes of such extremists is an opportunistic abuse of freedom of speech. It only fuels extremism. Muslims are the primary victims of the “cult of hatred”—empowered by colonial regimes & ...
