Azadeh Namdari: Backlash over conservative Iranian television host

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Iranian state television presenter Azadeh Namdari has faced accusations of hypocrisy on social media after a video emerged showing her drinking beer and not wearing her hijab while on holiday in Switzerland.

Alcoholic drinks are banned in Islam and in Iran, where it is the law for women to wear the headscarf.

It is not clear whether the TV presenter was drinking alcoholic or alcohol-free beer.

Namdari is known in Iran as a proponent of the Islamic dress code.

A photo of her in full hijab was once published in the conservative Iranian newspaper Vatan-e Emruz under the headline: "Thank God, I wear the veil".

 

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A tweet from an account attributed to the pro-government cleric Abolfazl Najafi-Tehrani read: "The problem is not #Azadeh_Namdari or people like her. The problem is the ideology, culture and the system that forces individuals in society to have dual-behaviour for some reasons."

 

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Iranian TV host accused of hypocrisy after being filmed drinking beer without a headscarf after telling a newspaper 'thank God I wear the veil'

• Azadeh Namdari captured on camera drinking beer and not wearing headscarf
• The Iranian state TV presenter has previously advocated the Islamic dress code
• The holiday pictures from Switzerland have sparked accusations of hypocrisy
  
  
  

 

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