Iran accused Kim Kardashian of being engaged in a covert propaganda campaign on Instgram aiming to corrupt Iranian youths.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp, an agency which protects country’s women and young people from the ravaging influences of Western culture, has targeted the reality show star for her provocative selfies, according to Vanity Fair.
“Ms. Kim Kardashian is a popular fashion model so Instagram’s CEO tells her, ‘Make this native,” the agency’s spokesman, Mostafa Alizadeh, announced on an Iranian news program.
“There is no doubt that financial support is involved as well. We are taking this very seriously,” he said.
According to Vanity Fair, the agency claims Kardashian works for Instagram in a conspiracy targeting young people and women and influencing them to shed their Muslim values by posting their own selfies on the popular photo sharing network.
The Revolutionary Guards said they have also warned 170 individuals, 29 of whom are being targeted for prosecution as part of ‘Operation Spider 2’, says the magazine.
The agency accuses those accounts of ‘promoting a culture of promiscuity, weakening and rejecting the institution of family, ridiculing religious values and beliefs, promoting relationships outside moral rules, and publishing the private pictures of young women.’
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