Iran Press/ Iran News: The French magazine recently held a cartoon contest in which it insulted the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
The spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry Nasser Kanaani conveyed the strong protest of Iran the French envoy and the government and stressed that the Islamic Republic would never tolerate the desecration of its national and religious values.
He pointed out that France was not allowed to insult the sanctities of other nations under the pretext of freedom of expression.
Highlighting the black record of the French magazine for its insult to the Prophet of Islam Muhammad (PBUH), Kanaani noted that Iran would hold France accountable for the new blasphemy.
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He handed over the letter of the process to the French ambassador Nicolas Roche and told him Iran would expect the due explanation and the compensation for the magazine's desecration.
Still, in another development, the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian condemned the insults by the French magazine and government and wrote in a tweet: "The insulting and out of indecent action of a French daily in publishing cartoons against religious and political authority will not be left without a decisive and effective answer," Iran's top diplomat tweeted.
"We will not allow the French government to cross the line," FM said, "They have definitely chosen the wrong path. We have already put the newspaper on the sanctions list."
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