Uproar in Iran over Ahmadinejad's pic with Chavez mom

March 12, 2013 11:32

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been criticised by Iranian religious and political groups after a picture from funeral for Hugo Chavez showed him getting up close and personal with the mother of the late Venezuelan president.

The loose, hand-holding, cheek-to-cheek embrace with a sobbing Elena Frias is not scandalous, but Iranian religious and political groups condemned it as Islamic law forbids unrelated men and women from touching, Al-Monitor reports.

Hojat al-Islam Hossein Ibrahimi, a member of the Society of Militant Clergy of Tehran, said that 'no unrelated women can be touched unless she is drowning at sea or needs (medical) treatment'.

Here's the pic that's raised a million eyebrows

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