Iran Shuts Down Cultural Center Over Cartoons Targeting Khamenei

Iran Shuts Down Cultural Center Over Cartoons Targeting Khamenei
Police officers walk past cartoons of French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo projected onto the facade of the Hotel de Region in Montpellier. Pascal Guyot/AFP via Getty Images
Shahrzad Ghanei
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Iran shut down a French cultural center in Tehran over the publication of cartoons published by a French satirical magazine that were deemed offensive.

The French Research Foundation, which includes a rich library that is used by Persian-speaking Iranian students and academics, was closed by the Islamic Republic for years, but was reopened during the term of the previous President Hassan Rouhani as a sign of warming relations between the two countries.