Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with the members of the French parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday - including Jewish MP Meyer Habib, an associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to others who attended the meeting, Zarif answered Habib by saying that the cartoon contest is not held in his name, or the name of the Iranian government, but is organized by unaffiliated associations.
Zarif avoided addressing Iran's calls to wipe Israel off the map, and was not willing to publically recognize the State of Israel, but did say: "My friend Meyer Habib, we're not against Jews and there is even a Jew in the Iranian parliament.