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Israel/Palestine

ericson00

(2,707 posts) Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:47 AM Oct 2016

Iran’s media considers German female minister a man, sparking outrage over handshake [View all]

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Female-Iranian-minister-causes-uproar-after-shaking-German-officials-hand-469697

Iran's press and social media users blasted a handshake between Germany’s Minister for the Environment Barbara Hendricks and Iranian Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar on Thursday.

The Iranian news outlet IRIB reported that Ebtekar shook a man’s hand while visiting her counterpart Hendricks in Berlin.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported on Friday that Hendric ks is a woman who “looks like a man.” Tasnim is linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

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Iran’s media considers German female minister a man, sparking outrage over handshake [View all] ericson00 Oct 2016 OP

LOL King_David Oct 2016 #1