(AFP) French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is making headlines again by stirring outrage in Iran, demonstrating that it has lost none of its appetite for provocation or its ability to stir up diplomatic problems abroad.
The irreverent and militantly atheist publication operates today with round-the-clock police protection and from a secret location, [eight] years after it was attacked by Islamist gunmen.
Twelve people died in that assault, including some of its most famous cartoonists, but it continues to caricature and mock politicians and public figures in a style that is deliberately vulgar and disrespectful.
Most controversially of all, it has repeatedly published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed — acts seen as blasphemous by many Muslims and which were used as justification for the 2015 attack on its staff.
