Iran IRGC chief vows revenge against Charlie Hebdo over Khamenei cartoons

Muslims will “sooner or later” take revenge against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei deemed “insulting” by Tehran, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday.

The paper published caricatures of Khamenei last week in support of the ongoing protests in Iran, angering the Islamic Republic and its allies.

“You have made a big mistake, but sooner or later Muslims will take revenge, and you may arrest the avengers, but the dead will not come back to life,” Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami was quoted as saying by the semi-official ILNA news agency.