Iran strongly condemned on Thursday an “insulting” poster on a bus in a French metropolis depicting supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state media reported, with relations strained between the 2 nations.
The town of Beziers in southern France had run a marketing campaign on buses calling for selective sorting of waste utilizing portraits of Iran’s Khamenei, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and North Korean chief Kim Jong Un.
“Remember to kind the trash,” stated the slogan on the bus poster, in keeping with the official Fb web page of the French metropolis, and pictures circulating on-line.
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The director common for Western Europe at Iran’s overseas ministry, Majid Nili, “strongly condemned” the motion of the French metropolis which was “insulting to the sacred values and personalities of our nation,” in keeping with the official IRNA information company.
“Using offensive content material towards officers of the Islamic republic of Iran is a flagrant violation of internationally accepted ideas and guidelines based mostly on respect for cultural values of different nations,” stated Nili.
He additional known as on the French authorities “to take the suitable measures to stop the repetition of such provocative actions.”
France on Tuesday urged its residents to keep away from travelling to Iran till French nationals held there have been launched. French authorities say three of their residents are held in Iran and calls them “hostages”.
On Monday, French president Emmanuel Macron stated Iran was “the principle strategic and safety problem for France, the Europeans, your complete area and past.”
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He added that Iran can be a key matter of debate with US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, which can take workplace on January 20.
Iran known as the remarks “baseless” and urged France “to rethink its non-constructive approaches to peace and stability”.
