Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared to link Israel with the recent terrorist attacks in France in remarks he made on Tuesday.
"Today, the main enemies of Islam are the arrogant powers and Zionism," Khamenei proclaimed, adding that "the last manifestation of their enmity was the Paris incident."
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By "incident," Iran's leader appeared to refer to the cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad that were shown by a teacher in a Paris classroom, resulting in the man's decapitation.
"The issue is not merely about an artist's deviation and corruption. Rather, there are hands behind this incident," Khamenei proclaimed in remarks cited on his own official website.
"A president decides to stand up for a simple artistic endeavor and then other governments support him as well," he mused. "This shows that there is an organization behind this act."
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Samuel Paty, a French middle-school teacher, was beheaded in a gruesome attack on October 16, by an 18-year-old man from Chechnya after showing cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad in class.
In the wake of his murder, French President Emmanuel Macron said France would not give up its cartoons, drawing ire from parts of the Muslim world.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
