On the eve of the trial of the January 2015 attacks, “Charlie Hebdo” decided to republish the cartoons of Muhammad who had made him a target of jihadists.

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The Islamic Republic of Iran has condemned the republication of the Muhammad cartoons by the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

"The offensive act of the French publication (...) is a provocation", writes the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a press release published on the night of Thursday to Friday.

Iran also sees it as "an insult to Islamic values ​​and to the faith of more than a billion Muslims in the world," the statement said.

Ridiculing or insulting Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, is punishable by death in Iran.

A reissue of the cartoons to mark the opening of the trial

The trial of the jihadist attacks against Charlie Hebdo, police officers and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015, opened Wednesday in Paris.

The attacks killed 17 people in three days.

To mark the opening of this trial, Charlie Hebdo has brought back the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, who had made the satirical weekly a target of the jihadists.

Iran had condemned in January 2015 the attack against Charlie Hebdo, judging however that these drawings were an "insult" against Muslims and had denounced an "abuse" of freedom of expression.

"Absolutely unacceptable" for Tehran

"Any insult or lack of respect towards the holy prophet of Islam (...) and the other divine prophets [the sacred figures of Judaism and Christianity recognized as prophets by Islam, Editor's note] are absolutely unacceptable", adds the press release.

The ministry also called for using freedom of expression “constructively for the peaceful coexistence of humanity” and “for better understanding between religions”.

Iran appears in 173rd place (out of 180 countries) in the latest edition of the world press freedom ranking established by the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

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