Everything for Pursuing Terrorism

US administration’s persistence to sell the world the idea that the final nuclear deal will bring rulers in Iran to propriety of behavior led to a meeting in London on May 12^th in which US Secretary of State John Kerry tried to persuade European financial institutions to facilitate business with Iran. Mr. Kerry did not come out of the meeting as a winner. International sanctions imposed over Tehran’s nuclear activities were lifted in January, but other U.S. and European sanctions remained unchanged. A few days later on May 17 David Lipton, the first IMF senior management official to visit Iran since the 1979 revolution, said in an interview in Tehran, “The best thing the government can do, and the banks can do, is to bring those standards up to international levels and try to reassure foreign partners, banks and otherwise that Iran’s banks are safe to deal with”.  As Bloomberg reported Lipton advised that “Iran must bolster anti-money laundering and terrorism-financing laws if it wants to reconnect to the global economy”.

Iran insisting to turn women's veiling into political dilemma, why?

In any discussion on women's clothing and veiling, the first thing is to distinguish between the question of veiling and the Iranian regime's manipulation of this issue, turning it into a tool for suppression of women and subsequently the society in general.

Wearing clothes was an achievement of human civilization. It is a genuinely progressive social phenomenon, changing and evolving in accordance with cultural, economic, political and artistic development of human societies. Weather conditions, culture, type of job, social traditions, etc. have always had significant impact on defining the clothes people wear in any community.

Iran: Hard-Liners Crack Down on Models Not Wearing Head Scarves

Originaly posted in New York Times

TEHRAN — Iran’s judiciary unleashed one of its periodic crackdowns on social media permissiveness on Sunday, announcing the arrest of eight people involved in online modeling without a mandatory head scarf and questioning another woman, a former model, live on state television on Sunday.

A blogger, Mehdi Abutorabi, 53, who managed a publishing tool called Persian Blog, was also detained, the semiofficial student news agency ISNA reported Monday.

The former model, Elham Arab, 26, had been something of an Instagram star, posting pictures of herself in bridal gowns with eye-catching, dyed-blond hair. But on Sunday, months after her Instagram account had been shut down, she wore a pious black scarf and matching gloves as she was questioned by two prosecutors during a live television program.