[IsraelTimes] Dozens of Iranians gathered Sunday outside the French embassy in Tehran protesting against cartoons of the Islamic Theocratic Republic ’s supreme leader by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo
... A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
The magazine on Wednesday published caricatures of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
in support of the protests in Iran, sparked by the September 16 death in jug of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code.
Iran
 ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence...
had warned La Belle France over the "insulting and indecent" cartoons, which appeared in a special edition to mark the anniversary of the deadly 2015 attack on the magazine’s Gay Paree offices.
Dozens of demonstrators, most of them religious seminary students, gathered in front of the embassy in the center of the capital Tehran and set fire to French flags, AFP journalists reported.
"La Belle France, be ashamed!" the crowd chanted.
Waving Iranian flags, they held pictures of Khamenei and signs reading "I will sacrifice my life for the leader," and "Shame on Charlie Hebdo."
"I came to support my revolution, my leader," 17-year-old seminary student Karim Heydarpour said.
Similar pro-government rallies were held in Iran’s holy city of Qom, 128 kilometers (80 miles) south of Tehran, the state broadcaster reported.
On Sunday evening, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi condemned the publication of the cartoons, state news agency IRNA reported.
"Resorting to insult and offense under the pretext of freedom is clear evidence of the absurdity of the logic of those who insult, and their disappointment at the non-fruition of the conspiracy of chaos and insecurity in the country," Raisi said.
Earlier in the day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry front man Nasser Kanani said freedom of speech should not be used as a pretext for "insulting" religion.
La Belle France "has no right to justify insulting the sanctities of other countries and nations and followers of divine religions under the pretext of freedom of speech," he said on Twitter.
Gay Paree should observe the "fundamental principles of international relations — namely mutual respect (and) non-interference in the internal affairs of others," he said. 
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