Iranian daily publishes Macron cartoon
Saman Kojouri
Press TV, Tehran
In reaction to French President Emmanuel Macron's defense of the insulting caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), the Iranian daily Vatan-e Emrooz has published a cartoon of Macron represented as a demon and titled “The Devil of Paris”.
This cartoon followed a wave of angry protests and reactions sweeping across the Muslim world after the French president defended the Charlie Hebdo publication of the insulting cartoons.
Other Iranian newspapers criticized Macron on the front page. Daily Kayhan demanded that the French ambassador be expelled from Iran in response to Macron’s insolence.
Meanwhile, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a letter urged the French youths to question the so-called reasoning behind Macron’s support for the insult against the Prophet of Islam in the name of freedom of speech. Subsequently, the French Instagram account of the Leader's website was briefly blocked, in a move viewed by experts as the West's double standard approach to freedom of expression.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani also said that any affront directed at the Prophet of Islam is in fact an insult to human values, morality and freedom.
Also in a statement, 240 Iranian lawmakers lashed out at the French government for supporting the satirical magazine's incendiary cartoons.
Moreover, Iranians staged a protest rally in front of the French embassy in Tehran.
Macron's remarks have triggered anti-France sentiments in the Muslim world, prompting calls for the boycott of French goods and an official apology.
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