Iran warns France over 'insulting' Khamenei cartoons

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Nathalie Loiseau, a French MEP and former minister loyal to President Emmanuel Macron, described Iran's response as an "interference attempt and threat" to Charlie Hebdo."Let it be perfectly clear: the repressive and theocratic regime in Tehran has nothing to teach France," she said.
37% : Other cartoons pointed to the authorities' use of capital punishment as a tactic to quell the protests.
34% : Above day-to-day politics, criticism of him is prohibited inside Iran.
23% :Many activists blamed Iran last year when the writer was stabbed at an event in New York but Tehran denied any link.
16% : "The insulting and indecent act... will not go without an effective and decisive response," tweeted Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-AbdollahianIran warned France on Wednesday of consequences after satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons depicting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Tehran deemed to be insulting.

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