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Iran responds to caricatures with 'I love Muhammad' campaign

Iranians have rallied around the hashtag campaign "I love Muhammad" on social media following Charlie Hebdo's printing of another caricature of the Prophet Muhammad.
Iranian worshippers demonstrate after the weekly Friday prayers on January 23, 2015 in Tehran to protest against a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that was published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an edition issued a week after 12 people were killed by Islamist gunmen at its Paris offices. Iran denounced the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo but has also condemned as "insulting" and "provocative" its publication last week of a new cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.  AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ M

Iranians are responding to Charlie Hebdo publishing an image of the Prophet Muhammad after the Jan. 7 terrorist attack with their own “I love Muhammad” hashtag campaign on social media.

Over the last two weeks, Charlie Hebdo has been a popular topic on social media, since two terrorists affiliated with extremist groups killed 12 members of the French satirical magazine's staff in Paris. The two perpetrators claimed that the massacre was in retaliation for the magazine's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

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