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Closing of a French institute in Iran: announcements "regrettable if they were confirmed", according to Paris

2023-01-05T14:47:49.242Z


The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not been officially informed of the closure of a French institute in Iran, in retaliation...


The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not been officially informed of the closure of a French institute in Iran, in retaliation for the cartoons published this Wednesday in a French satirical newspaper, he said Thursday, January 5 while stressing that these announcements “

would be regrettable if they were confirmed

”.

We have not received any official information at this stage concerning the announcements made by the press by the Iranian authorities relating to the closure of the French Institute for Research in Iran (IFRI)

”, underlined the spokesperson for the Quai d 'Orsay Anne-Claire Legendre.

"

They would obviously be regrettable if confirmed

," she added in a written statement.

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Institute created in 1983

The spokesperson specified that this institute is "

a high place of culture and exchanges, born from the merger in 1983 of the French Archaeological Delegation in Iran created in 1897 and the French Institute of Iranology in Tehran founded in 1947 by (the French philosopher and orientalist, editor’s note) Henry Corbin

”.

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The Iranian authorities had warned France on Wednesday that they would take action after the publication, the same day, by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo of cartoons deemed insulting to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the highest religious and political figure in the Republic. Islam from Iran.

"

The ministry is ending the activities of the French Institute for Research in Iran (IFRI) as a first step

," the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement.

Prior to this announcement, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna insisted on the existence of freedom of the press in France.

Source: lefigaro

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