Iran tries to impose its repressive policies on international media..
Iran is trying to impose its repressive policy against the local media on international media under the pretext of offending the authorities and the Iranian people; the first is that the authorities, according to their nomination, are public figures who agreed to be under the spotlight, and the second is freedom of expression and opinion in reporting the news, whether texts, videos or even caricature, one of which has provoked the regime in Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani commented today on a cartoon of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Khomeini in the Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh, saying it is an “insult” and that the Iranian people will not tolerate it.
Kanaani said in a press conference carried by the official Iranian news agency: “We expect our brothers in Saudi Arabia to resume their relations with us based on common interests, and we hope that Riyadh will adhere to the principle of dialog and avoid taking any measures harmful to this matter,” he said, referring to talks recently hosted by Baghdad.
“The Iranian people condemn the insult of Imam Khomeini and will not tolerate it, so we expect Saudi Arabia to pay attention to this issue and we have issued the necessary warnings about the non-repetition of such cases and events,” he added.
He did not identify the Saudi newspaper that published the caricature, but Iran’s Al-Alam channel attacked Al-Riyadh newspaper and the Saudi authorities, describing the cartoon published by the newspaper to Khomeini as “far removed from the morals of the media, even Islamic ethics.”
The Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh published yesterday a report entitled “Iran and the assassinations… a close relationship,” with a caricature of a Khomeini-like face mixed with the famous body of Satan expression.
The newspaper cited recent revelations by the United States that former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton was the target of an Iranian assassination plot, prepared by a member of the terrorist Revolutionary Guard Corps, to avenge the death of General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force.
The Saudi newspaper quoted the opinion of the American writer Bobby Ghosh, in an analysis published by the Bloomberg news agency, which confirmed that the Iranian regime has a long and shameful history of assassination plots against its opponents and critics abroad, but that the planning to assassinate a former national security adviser reveals a huge increase in the level of boldness.
