Here's how it went down:
Giulio Haas showed the image during a speech to hundreds of Swiss and Iranian business people at a conference in Zurich on Thursday, in which he also described Iran as a “pole of stability” in the Middle East.
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) called the cartoon “questionable,” and in a statement that it “regrets the use of this cartoon and considers it tasteless,” Reuters reported.
“Ambassador Haas did not intend to insult anybody with the cartoon,” the FDFA statement said. “If that is the case, however, he regrets it and seeks the pardon of everyone who could have felt insulted.”
Ambassador Haas sounds like a chap who knows that money makes the world go around, and that Iran has tons of it.
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