Charlie Hebdo's Khamenei cartoons stir storm between Iran and France

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50% : However, a day later, his office announced a "first step" of shutting down the Institut Francais de Recherche en Iran, a leading French government-run center for Iranian studies and archaeology in Tehran.
45% : In its statement, the Iranian Foreign Ministry also noted that Tehran was reconsidering cultural ties with Paris and warned that more "measures" were in the pipeline.
42% : According to the the Foreign Ministry's website, spokesperson Nasser Kanani told the French envoy that Tehran will not accept justifications that involve "the pretext of press freedoms." Earlier this week, Charlie Hebdo published a series of cartoons in support of the uprising in Iran that has seen over 500 people killed, with two protesters sent to the gallows and scores more feared to be facing the same fate.
41% : At the heights of Iran's diplomatic rifts with other states over the past four decades, foreign missions in Tehran have repeatedly been prime targets for Iranian hard-liners.
29% : TEHRAN -- A diplomatic row is unfolding between Tehran and Paris this week after the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo published a series of cartoons featuring Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as an executioner.

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