Salami attacks the editorial staff of the French satirical newspaper, which has made new cartoons against the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei: “Think about the fate of Rushdie,” he threatened, recalling the writer who was hit by a fatwa in New York last year and was stabbed
The new commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, threatened the editors of Charlie Hebdo. “Muslims – he warned – will sooner or later exact revenge on those responsible for publishing cartoons mocking the leader Ali Khamenei.”
“I think of the fate of Salman Rushdie”
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Salami then added, “You can arrest the Avengers, but you cannot raise the dead.” He then recalled the attack on Iranian writer Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed and seriously injured in New York last August. “These French are thinking about his fate”. The late Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa in 1989 against the author of the “Satanic Verses” for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
New anti-Iran cartoons in next issue of Charlie Hebdo
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The salami attack comes after Charlie Hebdo published a new series of cartoons against the Iranian regime. Although Tehran protested violently last week at the cartoons mocking the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, the satirical weekly published new drawings against the mullahs’ regime. In particular, in the new edition, which will be available in stores from January 11, Khamenei is repeatedly ridiculed in reference to the tragic executions of protesters who have been hanged in Iran.
The closure of the French research institute in Tehran
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Last Thursday, the Iranian authorities announced the closure of the French Institute for Research in Iran (Ifri), affiliated with the Paris Ministry of Foreign Affairs: a form of retaliation against a first series of 35 cartoons published by Charlie in the special edition last week the victims of the jihadist attack that decimated the newspaper’s editorial office in Paris on January 7, 2015. Several dozen Iranians also gathered outside the French embassy in Tehran on Sunday to burn French flags in protest at the newspaper. Charlie’s drawings were also condemned by Hezbollah, a powerful pro-Iranian movement in Lebanon, while France lobbied to defend the publication.
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The hashtag is #StopExecutionsinIran: the idea is to spread a message of resistance to the ongoing repression in Tehran. Many Chinese and TV celebrities take part: they are
The Actors of Hollywood to express their opposition to the crackdown on protests in Iran. From the Oscar winner Cate Blanchett to Marion Cotilardmany have responded to the call from the artists Nicole Najafi, Ana Lily Amirpour and Mozhan Marno. The film and television stars appear in a video message posted to social media and picked up by The Hollywood Reporter, where they silently hold up a sign with the hashtag #StopExecutionsinIran
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