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Paris chose “the wrong path” in allowing the publication of “insulting” cartoons of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Wednesday, according to POLITICO.

“The insulting and indecent act of a French publication in publishing cartoons against the religious and political authority will not go without a decisive and effective response,” Amir-Abdollahian tweeted.

“We will not allow the French government to go beyond all bounds,” he wrote, adding: “They have definitely chosen the wrong path.”

On Wednesday, Charlie Hebdo published dozens of caricatures depicting Khamenei being stoned by naked women or hung by the hair of unveiled women.

The drawings were selected as part of a competition launched by the French publication last month, which called on press cartoonists to send their “funniest and meanest caricature of Ali Khamenei.”

They are meant as a tribute to the Iranian women who have taken to the streets throughout the country since last September, after a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody, Charlie Hebdo’s publishing director said Tuesday on French radio.