Balanced News: Amid unrest, Iran’s hardliners turn their anger to France

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian hardliners on Sunday burnt France’s flag outside of its embassy in Tehran where they were protesting cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling clerics. The demonstrations outside of the French embassy follow previous attempts by Iran’s rulers to mobilize their supporters in counter-demonstrations. Later in the day, President Ebrahim Raisi offered his first reaction to the French cartoons and echoed similar claims.