Iran shuts French Institute amid row over Charlie Hebdo cartoons

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58% :It also announced that Tehran will "review" the cultural activities of France in the country and shut down the French Institute for Research in Iran (Institut Francais de Recherche en Iran), which operates under the French Embassy in Tehran, as the "first step".
58% :Hours after the tweet, the French Ambassador in Tehran was summoned by the Foreign Ministry over the publication of caricatures.
41% : People take part in solidarity protest on September 25, 2022, in Paris, France, for Mahsa Amini, [Mustafa Yalçın/Anadolu Agency]Iran says it will review France's cultural activities in the country and close down a French research institute in response to a French satirical magazine's caricatures of the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Anadolu News Agency reports.
37% : The competition came amid months-long protests in Iran sparked by the death of a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, while in police custody in mid-September.
25% :Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, in a statement said the Ambassador was told that Tehran does not accept "any insults to its sanctities" as well as "religious, national values", and that Tehran "reserves the right to give a "proportionate response".

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