The French magazine had published a special edition to mark the anniversary of the 2015 attack on its Paris office, including cartoons of the Islamic republic's leader.
A Tehran-based French thinktank will be shut down in protest against a publication by French magazine Charlie Hebdo.The research institute had previously been reopened as a sign of warming relations between the two countries.
"The ministry is ending the activities of the French Institute for Research in Iran as a first step," the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday , a day after Tehran had warned Paris of consequences. It has responded with a crackdown that Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights said has killed at least 476 people in protests, which Iranian officials generally describe as "riots".Flashing a victory sign, acclaimed pro-protest Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti is released on bail
"We haven't received any official information at this point concerning the Iranian authorities' reported announcements on the closure of the French Institute for Research in Iran," said Legendre, calling it "a major centre of culture and exchange". But the country was united in grief when in January 2015 the magazine was targeted in a deadly attack by Islamist gunmen who claimed to be avenging the weekly's decision to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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