Iran Shuts Down Cultural Center Over Cartoons Targeting Khamenei

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday that it had ended the activities of the French Institute of Research in Iran in response to caricatures of a top cleric and was reevaluating France's cultural activities in the country.
44% : "Let's remember that in France press freedom exists, contrary to what's happening in Iran and that this [freedom] is overseen by a judge within the framework of an independent judiciary, which is something that Iran without doubt doesn't know well," she said, adding that there were no blasphemy laws in France.
42% : A day later, France Foreign Minster Catherine Colonna said on Thursday that "Iran should look at what is going on at home before criticizing France," according to Reuters.
37% : The French ambassador in Tehran, Nicolas Roche, was also summoned by the Islamic Republic on Wednesday after the magazine Charlie Hebdo published dozens of cartoons mocking the Islamic Republic's head of state Ali Khamenei.
29% : Speaking to LCI TV, Colonna said it is Iran that is pursuing bad policies through its violence against its population and the detention of French nationals.
18% : Iran shut down a French cultural center in Tehran over the publication of cartoons published by a French satirical magazine that were deemed offensive.

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