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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is a Shia Muslim cleric with the final say on all state matters Iran says it has closed a Tehran-based French institute over "sacrilegious" cartoons ...

Charlie Hebdo regularly published cartoons and articles satirizing jihadists, and also drew caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. This has angered Islamic militant groups, partially because ...