Tehran, YJC. Iran’s foreign ministry has denounced Wednesday’s terrorist attack in the French capital in which 12 press and security staff were killed.
Marziyeh Afkham, spokeswoman for the Iranian foreign
ministry slammed the attack and described any terrorist action carried out on
innocent people as running counter to the tenets of Islam.
She nonetheless added that misusing notions such as freedom
of expression and insulting the sanctities of divine religions are all the same
condemnable and cannot be accepted.
On Wednesday morning, 3 gunmen carrying AK47s attacked the
Paris office of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, where they opened
fire indiscriminately and killed 12 people and wounded 11 others.
Judicial sources have said 4 cartoonists, including the
chief editor, were killed in the attack.
No group or individual has as yet claimed responsibility for
the action. However, the French police said it identified the attackers as
beeing affiliated with Yemen-based group which is a branch of al-Qaeda.
Afkham stated "Such actions are the follow-up of an unprecedented
wave of extremism and violence" which has taken in the world over in the
past decade.
She regretted that "Faulty policies and double-standard
approaches to phenomena such as violence and extremism" have aggravated terrorist
behavior.