Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman condemned the deadly attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, but called the magazine’s irreverent style of satire a form of extremism.

Iran’s semi-official Press TV reported that spokeswoman, Marziye Afham, called “any terrorist action against innocent people as being against Islam’s teachings.” However Afham also implicitly condemned the magazine:

The spokeswoman also condemned as unacceptable any form of misuse of freedom of speech, intellectual radicalism, and character assassination against personalities that are revered by religions and nations.

“Such behaviors are the continuation of the wave of extremism as well as physical and intellectual violence that has been spreading unprecedentedly across the world throughout the past decade…,” she added.

The Iran-backed Hamas terror group yesterday, condemned the killings at Charlie Hebdo but was notably silent about the murder of four Jewish hostages at the kosher supermarket, Ynet reported.

On Wednesday, Paris was struck by a shocking terrorist attack when militants opened fire with shotguns and Kalashnikovs in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and wounding several others. In another terror attack, on Friday,  four Jewish hostages were killed at a kosher supermarket in the eastern part of Paris.

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