Furor in Iran over ?Turkish dancing? accusations
Thursday, January 4, 2007
An Iranian vice president has filed a complaint against two lawmakers after a furor erupted over his alleged attendance at a ceremony in Turkey where women were dancing, the Fars news agency reported.
Esfandyar Rahim Mashaie has accused the members of Parliament of conducting a smear campaign against him by distributing a CD which purports to show him applauding while a woman stages an oriental dance at an official ceremony in Turkey.
It is considered strictly forbidden under Islam in Iran for a man to watch an unrelated woman dancing and such allegations are deeply sensitive for a member of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government.
Mashaie, who is also head of Iran's tourism and culture organization, has accused Members of Parliament Emad Afrough and Saeed Abotaleb of doctoring the video to show him applauding the dancing and said he did not attend that section of the ceremony.
?They lied since they edited a portion of the opening session when there was dancing, trying to say that I was there during the whole show,? he said. ?I was not there, you are wrong. Watch it again. I objected to the Secretary-General [of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu]... and I told him: ?No Islamic!'? he told Fars.
?The CD you saw was certainly an edited version. Of course I clapped, but not during that dance. ?I will pursue the case until they tell me that they were wrong and compensate me for the fuss they have caused,? said Mashaie, who was Ahmadinejad's cultural supremo during his tenure as the mayor of Tehran.
Asked why he had maintained his silence over a ceremony which took place more than a year ago, he replied: ?There was nothing to talk about. There is conspiracy. A conspiracy to tarnish the government's work.?
Afrough retorted to Fars that he would be filing a complaint of his own. ?I am also ready to file a complaint. We were expecting from him to leave the ceremony but apparently he did not and sat until the end of it.?
An Iranian vice president has filed a complaint against two lawmakers after a furor erupted over his alleged attendance at a ceremony in Turkey where women were dancing, the Fars news agency reported.
Esfandyar Rahim Mashaie has accused the members of Parliament of conducting a smear campaign against him by distributing a CD which purports to show him applauding while a woman stages an oriental dance at an official ceremony in Turkey.
It is considered strictly forbidden under Islam in Iran for a man to watch an unrelated woman dancing and such allegations are deeply sensitive for a member of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government.
Mashaie, who is also head of Iran's tourism and culture organization, has accused Members of Parliament Emad Afrough and Saeed Abotaleb of doctoring the video to show him applauding the dancing and said he did not attend that section of the ceremony.
?They lied since they edited a portion of the opening session when there was dancing, trying to say that I was there during the whole show,? he said. ?I was not there, you are wrong. Watch it again. I objected to the Secretary-General [of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu]... and I told him: ?No Islamic!'? he told Fars.
?The CD you saw was certainly an edited version. Of course I clapped, but not during that dance. ?I will pursue the case until they tell me that they were wrong and compensate me for the fuss they have caused,? said Mashaie, who was Ahmadinejad's cultural supremo during his tenure as the mayor of Tehran.
Asked why he had maintained his silence over a ceremony which took place more than a year ago, he replied: ?There was nothing to talk about. There is conspiracy. A conspiracy to tarnish the government's work.?
Afrough retorted to Fars that he would be filing a complaint of his own. ?I am also ready to file a complaint. We were expecting from him to leave the ceremony but apparently he did not and sat until the end of it.?
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