‘Charlie Hebdo’ charges against Iran and publishes new cartoons of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

10 Jan. () –

The French satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ will publish an issue on Wednesday that includes new caricatures of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as criticism of the repression and violence that the country is experiencing as a result of the protests.

“What do mullahs understand about desire and passion? They don’t understand much. They are obsessive and their only pleasure is to control others, so they have to scare, contain and suppress. They cannot help their fellow man to prosper, because they are not themselves,” reads an editorial published Tuesday in Farsi by its director, known as Riss.

The mollahs on my weekdays find the sortie!

back:

? Les mollahs, malgré eux caricaturists
? Zoom on the deterioration of the métiers du son
? Enquête sur les implants Essure, a national health disaster

For sale mercedi! pic.twitter.com/RUTgb50eCF

—Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 10, 2023

The new cover, advanced in the Twitter account of the satirical magazine, expresses: “Definitely the mullahs cannot make women laugh”, accompanied by a drawing of a naked woman from whose anus four miniature figures of Khamenei protrude. A similar cover was published on January 7, coinciding with the anniversary of the attack on the magazine’s headquarters.

‘Charlie Hebdo’ announced on December 9 an “international competition to produce caricatures of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” whom it described as “a symbol of backward thinking, narrow-mindedness and intolerance of religious power.”

These actions by the French satirical magazine were not liked in Tehran. Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amirabdolahian called the decision “insulting” and “indecent.” The magazine suffered cyber attacks last week for the publication of the cartoons.

The magazine came to the international arena after the publication in 2006 of some cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which had originally appeared in the Danish newspaper ‘Jyllands-Posten’. In 2015, its headquarters was the target of an attack that resulted in twelve deaths.