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Iran beauty queen seeks asylum in Philippines, calling government ‘terrorist’
The Times of Israel ^ | October 23, 2019 | TOI staff

Posted on 10/23/2019 7:02:07 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Detained at Manila airport for a week, Bahareh Zare Bahari says Tehran-issued Interpol alert for assault is ‘fake,’ came due to her political activism

An Iranian beauty queen has requested asylum in the Philippines after an Interpol alert about her filed by Tehran got her detained at the Manila airport.

Bahareh Zare Bahari has been held at Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 3 since October 17, as authorities examine Iran’s allegation that she assaulted a fellow Iranian in the Philippines and Bahari’s counter-claim that the Islamic Republic is targeting her for her political activism and that the charges against her are fake.

Bahari, who represented Iran at the 2018 Miss Intercontinental pageant in Manila and who has been studying dentistry in the Philippines since 2014, is an outspoken women’s rights advocate and a supporter of opposition activists in her country.

Earlier this year she angered Iran’s Islamist government by waving a photo of prominent government critic Reza Pahlavi at a pageant. Joining a beauty pageant is in itself frowned upon by the conservative religious leadership.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baharehzarebahari; iran; philippines; thephilippines

1 posted on 10/23/2019 7:02:07 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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There is just something that makes me distrust people who hate alcohol, dogs, bacon, and beautiful women. They just seem to be angry and hateful all the time, almost like democrats


2 posted on 10/23/2019 7:04:21 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget; Lazamataz
Laz would. I wouldn't. I prefer a FLIP spinner.
3 posted on 10/23/2019 7:06:14 AM PDT by ASA Vet (My post is pure BS, don't believe anything I post, including this tagline.)
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To: ASA Vet

What?


4 posted on 10/23/2019 7:08:07 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: ASA Vet

A petite Filipino?


5 posted on 10/23/2019 7:08:59 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: jeffc

Also, I have to say, she’s not the prettiest Persian girl I’ve seen...


6 posted on 10/23/2019 7:09:25 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

They’re so fk’d up over there that you can’t even find any good pics of her.


7 posted on 10/23/2019 7:09:28 AM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: jeffc
"Also, I have to say, she’s not the prettiest Persian girl I’ve seen..."

You must have seen them back in the 60s. Very few are bold enough to display their beauty in public without the threat of a flogging.

8 posted on 10/23/2019 7:27:38 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

She is alright, but you will see MUCH better at ANY ACC or SEC Campus.


9 posted on 10/23/2019 7:47:28 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Hijab not required for that one...


10 posted on 10/23/2019 8:22:01 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Notably, the flag she is holding is the flag of the pre-Islamic Revolution Imperial State of Iran, not the Islamic Republic of Iran. She’s is probably a royalist, no wonder the mullahs want her arrested. Plus with the amount of skin in the photo, the mullahs probably thinks she’s a wh—-, who should be stoned to death.


11 posted on 10/23/2019 8:31:25 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

Iran was a much better place under the rule of the Shah.


12 posted on 10/23/2019 9:23:29 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Guilty on all counts of assaulting my eyes.


13 posted on 10/23/2019 9:37:20 AM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: jimmygrace

Hijab not required for that one...
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In the Philippines.

At home, mandatory!

The long arm of Ali Khamenei has reached across the globe and into the Philippines, to punish a non-conformist.


14 posted on 10/23/2019 9:56:09 AM PDT by Yulee
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To: hoosierham
Iran was a much better place under the rule of the Shah.

Given current management, that is an exceedingly low bar. The Imperial regime was corrupt and oppressive, but they left their neighbors alone and tried to drag Iran into the modern world.

15 posted on 10/23/2019 9:59:34 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

Islam needs to be oppressed.


16 posted on 10/24/2019 5:01:03 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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