Anti-Charlie Hebdo protests in Iran

Iranian students demonstrated Monday outside the French embassy in Tehran in response to a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed published by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, media reports said.

News of the planned protest led the French ambassador to announce the embassy would close on Monday and advise expatriates to avoid the area.

Sympathy over the killing of 12 people by Islamist gunmen at Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris on January 7 has turned to anger in several Muslim countries, after it pictured the prophet on the front page of its "survivors" edition. (AFP)

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