{"id":8250,"date":"2013-03-10T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2013-03-10T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T20:59:28","slug":"irans-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-criticised-for-hugging-mother-of-hugo-chavez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/irans-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-criticised-for-hugging-mother-of-hugo-chavez\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticised for hugging mother of Hugo Chavez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ahmadinejad_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ahmadinejad_2.jpeg\" alt=\"ahmadinejad_2\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ahmadinejad_2.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ahmadinejad_2-300x187.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMahmoud Ahmadinejad has been accused of betraying Islam after he was pictured in an emotional embrace with the mother of Hugo Chavez at the late Venezuelan leader&#8217;s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian president&#8217;s domestic opponents reacted furiously after photos emerged of him giving Elena Frias de Chavez, 78, a consoling hug at last Friday&#8217;s funeral in Caracas &#8211; at which he also kissed Mr Chavez&#8217;s coffin.<br \/>\nReligious conservatives said the act insulted Iran&#8217;s religious dignity and amounted to &#8220;haram&#8221; \u2013 a term used to describe a religiously forbidden act under Islamic rules.<br \/>\nMohammad Taghi Rahbar, the Friday prayer leader of Iran&#8217;s second city, Isfahan, told Mehr news agency that Mr Ahmadinejad had &#8220;lost control&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;Shaking hands with a non-mahram (unrelated by family) woman, under any circumstances, whether young or old, is not allowed. Hugging or expressing emotions is improper for the dignity of the president of a country like the Islamic Republic of Iran.&#8221;<br \/>\nMohammad Dehghan, a member of the governing board of Iran&#8217;s parliament, the Majles, said the episode exposed the true nature of the &#8220;deviant current&#8221;, the term used by allies of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, to describe Mr Ahmadinejad and his allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been accused of betraying Islam after he was pictured in an emotional embrace with the mother of Hugo Chavez at the late Venezuelan leader&#8217;s funeral. The Iranian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/irans-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-criticised-for-hugging-mother-of-hugo-chavez\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}