仏大使館前でハメネイ師風刺画に抗議 イラン

【テヘランＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスの風刺週刊紙シャルリー・エブドが、反体制デモが続いているイランの最高指導者アリ・ハメネイ師の風刺画を掲載したことを受け、首都テヘランのフランス大使館前に８日、イラン人数十人が集結して抗議した。（写真はのフランス大使館前で、仏紙シャルリー・エブドによる最高指導者アリ・ハメネイ師の風刺画掲載を非難するデモ参加者）
　イランでは、頭髪を覆うスカーフ「ヒジャブ」の着用方法が不適切だったとして逮捕されたクルド系女性マフサ・アミニさん（２２）が昨年９月１６日に死亡したことに反発する抗議デモが起きており、同紙はデモを支持して４日に風刺画を掲載した。
　ＡＦＰ記者によると、大半が神学校の学生数十人が仏大使館前でフランス国旗を燃やし、「フランス、恥を知れ」と連呼した。
　群衆はイラン国旗を振り、ハメネイ師の肖像写真や、「最高指導者に人生をささげる」「シャルリー・エブド、恥知らず」と書いた紙を掲げた。
　国営テレビによると、同様のデモは、テヘラン南方の聖都コムでも行われた。
　イラン当局は、アミニさんが死亡したことに抗議するデモを「暴動」と位置付け、外国や反体制派があおっていると非難している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/01/10-13:21）

Dozens of Iranians gathered Sunday outside the French embassy in Tehran protesting against cartoons of the Islamic republic's supreme leader by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
The magazine on Wednesday published caricatures of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in support of the protests in Iran, sparked by the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest for allegedly violating the country's strict dress code.
Iran has warned France over the insulting and indecent cartoons, which appeared in a special edition to mark the anniversary of the deadly 2015 attack on the magazine's Paris offices.
Dozens of demonstrators, most of them religious seminary students, gathered in front of the embassy in the centre of the capital Tehran and set fire to French flags, AFP journalists reported.
France, be ashamed!, the crowd chanted.
Waving Iranian flags, they held pictures of Khamenei and signs reading I will sacrifice my life for the leader, and Shame on Charlie Hebdo.
I came to support my revolution, my leader, 17-year-old seminary student Karim Heydarpour said.
Similar pro-government rallies were held in Iran's holy city of Qom, 128 kilometres (80 miles) south of Tehran, the state broadcaster reported.
Iranian authorities brand the months-long protests in the country as riots and accuse foreign countries and opposition groups of stoking the unrest.
On Sunday evening, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi condemned the publication of the cartoons, state news agency IRNA reported.
Resorting to insult and offence under the pretext of freedom is a clear evidence of the absurdity of the logic of those who insult, and their disappointment at the non-fruition of the conspiracy of chaos and insecurity in the country, Raisi said.
Earlier in the day, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said freedom of speech should not be used as a pretext for insulting religion.
France has no right to justify insulting the sanctities of other countries and nations and followers of divine religions under the pretext of freedom of speech, he said on Twitter.
Paris should observe the fundamental principles of international relations -- namely mutual respect (and) non-interference in the internal affairs of others, he said.
On Thursday, Iran said it was closing the Tehran-based French Institute for Research in Iran as a first step in response to the cartoons, after summoning Paris ambassador to protest the publication.
Located in the centre of Tehran, IFRI had been closed for many years, but was reopened under the 2013-2021 presidency of the moderate president Hassan Rouhani as a sign of warming bilateral relations.