Tehran, Iran, Feb. 02 – A semi-official Iranian daily called France a “fascist state” in an editorial on Thursday. The hard-line daily Kayhan, which reflects the position of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticised the European Union for attempting to have the Islamic Republic’s nuclear file referred to the United Nations Security Council less than a month since French President Jacques Chirac publicly stated that he would be willing to use non-conventional weapons, such as nuclear bombs, to respond to a major terrorist incident on French soil. The daily accused Paris of increasing its arsenal of weapons on mass...