Turkish President Recep Erdoğan and Iran’s political leadership should take full responsibility for the knife attack in Notre Dame Basilica in Nice, France, which led to three fatalities.

After the beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty three weeks ago in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in Paris by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee, Erdoğan and Iran conveniently directed their anger at French President Emmanuel Macron. Their attack on Macron is a psychological boost for the limping Isis...

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