Iranians protest outside French embassy after Charlie Hebdo cartoons

“I came to support my revolution, my leader”, 17-year-old seminary student Karim Heydarpour said. Similar pro-government rallies were held in Iran’s holy city of Qom, 128km (80 miles) south of Tehran, the state broadcaster reported. Iranian authorities brand the months-long protests in the country as “riots” and accuse foreign countries and opposition groups of stoking the unrest.