Iran Focus
Speaking to a gathering of senior clerics in Tehran, Rafsanjani, who currently chairs the State Expediency Council, said that Western interpretations of freedom of press were false.
Insulting the prophet of peace and freedom under the pretext of freedom of thought and expression is a satanic conspiracy which without doubt will be disclosed as before with the presence of Muslims everywhere, he said, the state-run Fars news agency reported.
The powerful cleric said that the Wests goal for publishing the cartoons was clear and encouraged Muslims everywhere to rise up against such plots.