Iranian media call Sarkozy’s wife ‘prostitute’

The Kayhan newspaper, whose editor is a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, described Bruni-Sarkozy as a prostitute on Saturday in an article headlined “French prostitutes enter the human rights uproar.’’ The state-owned news website inn.ir carried similar remarks yesterday.

“Although Bruni, the morally corrupt singer and actress of Italian [origin], was able to break the Sarkozy family and marry the French president, lately new reports have emerged about her affair with a singer,’’ said the weekend report in Kayhan.

The French president’s office declined to comment on the remarks.

The media attack was in response to an open letter Bruni-Sarkozy wrote to Ashtiani that was printed in several French news outlets last week. “How to remain silent after learning of the sentence against you?’’ Bruni-Sarkozy wrote, adding that the stoning would “deeply wound all women, all children, all those who have feelings of humanity.’’