Iran Arrests Fashion Models In Social Media Crackdown

[MariaThinks]

Source: Huffington Post

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has launched a new crackdown on social media, arresting fashion models active on photo-sharing websites and a blog website manager after Tehran’s top leader declared war on un-Islamic thoughts on the Internet.

Eight members of a modeling network were arrested and accused of publishing photos of women without the obligatory hijab headscarf on the picture-sharing application Instagram, Tasnim news agency said on Sunday.

State television also broadcast live “confessions” of a model who explained she posted photos of herself on Instagram wearing certain clothes or beauty products to earn money through advertisements.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iran-arrests-models-without-headscarves_us_5739dab0e4b060aa781abbbc

[TygrBright]

1. They are painting themselves into a corner.

It will be interesting to see the form the next revolution takes, but I suspect it will also be quite anxiety-provoking.

curiously,
Bright

[EdwardBernays]

2. And still

They're more liberal than many other western allies...

[ForgoTheConsequence]

3. Name one...

I'll wait.

[mainer]

4. Saudi Arabia?

In Iran, women can at least drive and comprise a pretty large percentage of university student body.

[EdwardBernays]

5. Didn't have to wait long did you?

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-truth-about-iran-2014-9?IR=T

I'll let you melt your head with this as well ^^^

And if you want some more:

Pakistan - where gang rape is still acceptable punishment around the country

Mali - top partner in Africa in the GWOT even though it had forced female genital mutilation and endless forced child marriages

Yemen - often listed as the worst place for women - with limited access to education and the economy. Sort of a very poor Saudi Arabia.

Peru - the US considers Peru to be a strong ally in South America but something like 7/10 women there suffer from domestic violence and education for women is rare.

Want more? Cause I could easily go on.

[romanic]

6. Western colonization made them arrest those girls.

[Octafish]

7. Iran did have a democracy until BP and CIA got a hold of it in 1953.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8374897

Allen Dulles liked colonies. Ask Patrice Lumumba, if we could.

[romanic]

8. Okay.

Something that happened decades ago gives Iran a pass to arrest these models then?

[Octafish]

9. No. It's a different world in Iran, thanks to the USA.

It'd be a lot better place -- perhaps a model of Democracy for other nations.

Thanks to the USA and Big Oil, though, it's fixed as a theocratic republic managed by people tired of Big Oil and the USA calling the life and death shots.

Other than that, though, yeah. The models shouldn't have been arrested, IMFO.