The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the closure of the Institut Français de Recherche en Iran – the cultural wing of the French Embassy in Tehran – as “the first step in response to” insulting cartoons published by Paris-based Charlie Hebdo magazine. The ministry issued a statement on Thursday, ...
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani strongly condemned a visit by far-right Israeli minister to Al-Aqsa Mosque. In a statement late Tuesday, Kanaani described a visit by Zionist supremacist Itamar Ben-Gvir to Al-Aqsa as a desecration of the holy Muslim site. “Al-Quds, in its entirety, is the eternal capital of ...
