The protestors, who wore surgical masks and met social distancing protocols due to the coronavirus epidemic, condemned the organized sacrilege of Islamic sanctities in France, chanting slogans against Macron and other French officials.<\/p>\n
They also called on the Iranian government to expel the French ambassador, and stressed the need for boycotting the France-made goods.<\/p>\n
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The Iranian people and students chanted slogans against the US, Israel and al-Saud, describing the French officials\u2019 support for the insults to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as \u201cmodern ignorance\u201d.<\/p>\n
In recent weeks and after a French teacher was beheaded by an ISIL member after he displayed cartoons of the prophet of Islam, French President Emmanuel Macron attacked Islam and the Muslim community, accusing Muslims of “separatism”, and he said previously that “Islam is a religion in crisis all over the world”.<\/p>\n
The incident in Paris coincided with a provocative move by Charlie Hebdo, a left-wing French magazine infamous for publishing anti-Islamic content, which has drawn widespread anger and outrage across the Muslim world.<\/p>\n
The caricatures were first published in 2006 by a Danish newspaper Jylllands Posten, sparking a wave of protests.<\/p>\n
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned the French Charg\u00e9 d’ Affaires, Florent Aydalot, over the French President’s recent remarks against Islam.<\/p>\n
The French Charge d\u2019 Affaires was summoned to the Foreign Ministry, in absence of its ambassador, to hear Iran\u2019s condemnation of the growing anti-Islamic moves and remarks in France.<\/p>\n
Aydalot received the Iranian Foreign Ministry\u2019s condemnation of the sacrilegious acts in France and the following unacceptable remarks of the French authorities that have hurt the feelings of nearly 2 billion Muslims in the world and millions of Muslims in Europe.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny insult and disrespect to the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) and the pristine values of Islam are strongly condemned and rejected by every person and in every position,\u201d the Iranian Foreign Ministry official who met the French diplomat said.<\/p>\n
“It is of deep regret to incite Islamophobia and spread hatred in the name of freedom of expression, which should serve relations, empathy and peaceful coexistence among human societies.”<\/p>\n
The French official \u200b\u200bsaid he would convey Iran’s strong objection to Paris very soon.<\/p>\n
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also blasted sacrilege of Islam\u2019s Prophet (PBUH) in the European states, warning that disrespecting the sanctity of nearly two billion Muslims for the crimes of Wahhabi groups would only heightens extremism.<\/p>\n
\u201cMuslims are the primary victims of the cult of hatred (Wahhabism), empowered by colonial regimes and exported by their own clients,\u201d Zarif wrote on his twitter page on Monday.<\/p>\n
He said that insulting 1.9bln Muslims and their sanctities \u201cfor the abhorrent crimes of such extremists is an opportunistic abuse of freedom of speech\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt only fuels extremism,\u201d Zarif warned.<\/p>\n
Also, earlier today, Secretary of Iran\u2019s Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezayee condemned the French government for supporting the sacrilege of Islam\u2019s Prophet (PBUH), stressing the necessity for Emanuel Macron to apologize to Muslims.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe French president\u2019s measure was a kind of political folly and he should apologize to the Islamic world for this position,\u201d Rezayee, the former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said.<\/p>\n
He blamed certain Arab states which have normalized ties with Israel for Macron\u2019s insolence to insult the Islamic sanctities, and said, \u201cThe Islamic states and bodies are necessitated to adopt more united and more serious positions against this blasphemous act.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rezayee also asked Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to urge Islamic states\u2019 leaders to sack the French ambassadors from their countries in a coordinated move.<\/p>\n
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