Iran’s threat to Charlie Hebdo after the cartoons of Ayatollah Jameini: “Look what happened to Salman Rushdie”

On January 7, 2015, an Islamic terrorist commando murdered twelve people in the Parisian office of the satirical weekly ‘Charlie Hebdo’ to “punish” the publication of cartoons of Muhammad. Nine years later, the same weekly has published caricatures of the Iranian ayatollahs, vigorously supporting the popular revolt against religious tyranny. Tehran has once again launched disturbing threats against the weekly… Laurent Sourisseau, ‘Riss’, director of ‘Charlie Hebdo’ since the 2015 tragedy, reacts in this way to the new threats from the Iranian state: «The mullahs are not happy . They didn’t like the cartoons of their Supreme Guide that we published last week, they didn’t make them laugh. Mocking and laughter are not a matter of tyrants who, in this case, to top it off, are religious. But beware, his reaction has not been limited to diplomatic protests. The commercial office of our magazine has been the victim of attacks: we have had to temporarily close it. The Police are investigating, but everything seems to indicate that the attacks have been remotely controlled by Tehran. Our newsroom has spent years under police surveillance; The Ministry of the Interior has ordered increased controls and armed surveillance. Standard Related News No Iran retaliates against France for the ‘insulting’ caricatures of Ayatollah Khamenei published in ‘Charlie Hebdo’ ABC The magazine called a contest for satirical drawings of the Iranian supreme leader. The country’s authorities have called the French ambassador for consultations and have closed a French research institute as the “first stage” of responses. The perpetrators of the January 2015 massacre wanted to “punish” the “infidels” who had ” daring to desecrate” the image of Muhammad. Eight years later, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ supports from the beginning, in its own way, the revolt of women against religious tyranny -a revolt with the dimension of a sexual and social revolution- and, for weeks, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ , publishes many jokes, cartoons, drawings and graphic stories, which culminated in two covers, on January 4 and 11. Code Desktop International contest #MullahsGetOut : Every participant won a place in hell https://t.co/knUnViqhEI— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 5, 2023 Image for mobile, amp and app Mobile code International contest #MullahsGetOut : Every participant won a place in hell https://t.co/knUnViqhEI— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 5, 2023 AMP International contest #MullahsGetOut code: Every participant won a place in hell https://t.co/knUnViqhEI— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 5, 2023 Code APP International contest #MullahsGetOut : Every participant won a place in hell https://t.co/knUnViqhEI— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 5, 2023 The first had this title: « Mullahs: go back to where you came from ». With that title he presents the image of a large woman laughing out loud. A tail of mullahs begins to enter the open sex of the woman. In the same issue, a kneeling mullah receives urine on his face from a woman who makes urgent needs on her on the Shiite cleric. That first cover last week opened up a flammable crisis. The Iranian government orchestrated street demonstrations in France against ‘Charlie Hebdo’, supported by numerous Islamic factions throughout the Middle East. Tehran also filed an official protest with the French government. Details that did not intimidate the management and writing of ‘Charlie Hebdo’; quite the contrary. The satirical weekly organized an international contest on the fly, presented in this way: «International contest. Mullahs out. If you are an international cartoonist, don’t hesitate: write or draw the funniest caricatures of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Code Desktop Le journal de la semaine est à retrouver chez votre marchand de journaux ou south https://t.co/5SPrx5RObP ! pic.twitter.com/xyliuvq3VE— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 11, 2023 Image for mobile, amp and app Mobile code Le journal de la semaine est à retrouver chez votre marchand de journaux ou sur https://t.co/ 5SPrx5RObP ! pic.twitter.com/xyliuvq3VE— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 11, 2023 AMP Code pic.twitter.com/xyliuvq3VE— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 11, 2023 Code APP Le journal de la semane est à retrouver chez votre marchand de journaux ou sur https://t.co/5SPrx5RObP ! pic.twitter.com/xyliuvq3VE— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 11, 2023 The response was swift: the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ editorial staff received several hundred cartoons for all tastes: from obscenity to agit-prop more brutal, with ayatollahs who torture, rape, copulate with each other, enjoy hanging innocents, etc. Not content with a first cover and a more or less international contest, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ insists on its latest issue, published yesterday. The same smiling lady from last week, always naked, is introduced with this headline: “Mullahs definitely don’t understand anything about women.” The naked lady has her legs and buttocks well raised, to better show her ass, open, through which a string of mullahs comes out, saying: “It took us a week to find the exit.” Desktop Code The week’s issue is back at your dealer’s journal ou sur https://t.co/5SPrx5RObP ! pic.twitter.com/zdhEXXzVy5— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 4, 2023 Image for mobile, amp and app Mobile code The number of the week is back at your dealer’s journal ou sur https://t.co/ 5SPrx5RObP ! pic.twitter.com/zdhEXXzVy5— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 4, 2023 Code AMP The number of the week is back at your dealer’s journal ou sur https://t.co/5SPrx5RObP ! pic.twitter.com/zdhEXXzVy5— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 4, 2023 Code APP The number of the week is back at your dealer’s journal ou sur https://t.co/5SPrx5RObP ! pic.twitter.com/zdhEXXzVy5— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) January 4, 2023 In 2015, the central theme of cartoons and Iranian anger was Muhammad. Eight years later, women, and Iranian women in particular, are at the heart of the new storm. Riss reasons the editorial decision to present the women, naked, on the cover of the weekly in this way: «What is happening in Iran is not only a democratic revolution: it is a revolt of desires and pleasure. Those sentenced to death, hanged, in Tehran, are not women and men who have lived their lives intensely. They are young, just beginning to live, with many hopes and desires. The sad passions of the mullahs cannot stand the challenge of the happy passions of the Iranian youth.” Door of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ newsroom, with Christian Guémy’s drawing of the eleven victims of the 2015 attack Juan Pedro Quiñonero ‘Charlie Hebdo’ is a modest satirical weekly with a circulation of about 60,000 copies. Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a state ruled by religious tyranny, with many tentacles throughout the Middle East, imposing martial law on 87 million people. Tehran has the active or passive complicity of great totalitarian and less totalitarian powers. ‘Charlie Hebdo’ relies on the security services of the French State to try to avoid another revenge, another massacre, another bloodbath. The battle is long, hard and unpredictable. ‘Chalie Hebdo’ is receiving the moral support of many more or less scattered groups of intellectuals. And the surroundings of his newsroom, in a modest and multicultural neighborhood, are literally cordoned off by state security forces, armed. The writing of the satirical weekly is united and willing to continue his line of critical work. There are many other topics of work: Macron, the reform of the national pension system, the machismo that rages on the French extreme left, Putin, the Vatican, Ukraine… But the revolution started by Iranian women, young and not so young , has a particular dimension. As Riss says: it is also a revolt, a revolution of the imagination, of desire, constantly denouncing the gloomy Islamic religious tyranny.