TEHRAN, Iran — Iran condemns the knife attack in the French city of Nice that left three dead in a church as part of a “cycle of provocations and violence” that must stop.
“We strongly condemn today’s terrorist attack in #Nice,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweets in English.
“This escalating vicious cycle-hate speech, provocations & violence-must be replaced by reason & sanity. We should recognize that radicalism breads more radicalism, and peace cannot be achieved with ugly provocation.”
Zarif includes a verse from the Koran: “And We have not sent you, (O Mohammad), except as a mercy to the worlds.”
French President Emmanuel Macron has strongly defended secular values and the right to mock religion following the murder of a French schoolteacher who had shown his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Yesterday, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned that insulting the Prophet Mohammed may encourage “violence and bloodshed.”
— AFP
An Iranian man holds a poster depicting French President Emmanuel Macron as the devil during a protest outside the French embassy in Tehran on October 28, 2020. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
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