(ANSA) - ROMA, 08 GEN - Iranian clerics hold pictures of
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an
anti-France protest demonstration in front of the French embassy
in Tehran, Iran, 08 January 2023. Iran harshly condemned the
publication of cartoons depicting Iranian supreme leader
Aayatollah Ali Khamenei by French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Iran
has shut down the French Institute of Research on 05 January as
Iranian foreign ministry released a statement stressing 'Iran
will not tolerate a muted response to such an anti-cultural and
anti-human move by the French magazine, will reconsider its
cultural interaction with France, and will shut down the French
Institute for Research in Iran'. (ANSA).