French president serving Zionists’ interests by making anti-Islam remarks: Leader’s adviser

The adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on international affairs has condemned recent outrageous anti-Islam remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron, saying he is just serving the interests of the Zionist regime.

“Sacrilegious acts against Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (Blessings of God upon him and his progeny) in France indicates the plunge of diplomacy in this European country,” Ali Akbar Velayati said in an address to a webinar held in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Saturday.

According to Press TV, he added that France is no more the country whose presidents played an important role in the world and said the incumbent French president is following the Zionists and adopting such anti-Islam stances to curry favors with the Israeli regime.

“Such a behavior has caused Emmanuel Macron to be hated in the Muslim world,” the senior Iranian official pointed out.

Velayati warned that the Muslim world will take proper action against France and its president in case of the continuation of such anti-Islam approaches because “Muslims will stand against such an insult.”

Earlier this month, French history teacher Samuel Paty provoked outrage by showing his students the blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (Blessings of God upon him and his progeny) earlier published by the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

He was murdered outside his school in a Paris suburb on October 16 by an 18-year-old assailant, identified as Chechen Abdullakh Anzorov, who was shot dead by police soon after the killing.

The French president characterized the incident as an “Islamist terrorist attack.”

Macron claimed that Islam as a religion was in a state of “crisis” and defended the offensive cartoons, which have hurt the feelings of Muslims in France and elsewhere.

The remarks triggered anti-France sentiment in the Muslim world, prompting calls for the boycott of French goods and an official apology.

Ayatollah Khamenei on Wednesday urged the French youths to question the so-called reason underpinning Macron’s support for insult against the Prophet of Islam (Blessings of God upon him and his progeny) in the name of “free speech.”

Addressing the youths in a statement, the Leader advised, “Ask your president why he supports insulting God’s Messenger in the name of freedom of expression.”

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