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Iranian State Media Angered by Contact Between Saudi King and Melania Trump – By Patrick Goodenough / May 26, 2017
Amid an ongoing war of words between the Middle East’s leading Sunni and Shi’ite powers, Iran’s state media latched onto a new irritant this week – the interaction between a U.S. first lady with an uncovered head, and the king of Saudi Arabia.
As President Trump’s first presidential trip abroad proceeded, some Western media outlets commented on the decision of First Lady Melania Trump and her stepdaughter Ivanka not to cover their heads in Saudi Arabia last weekend – but to do so when meeting Pope Francis on Wednesday.
But for Iran’s state-owned IRNA news agency, while that decision reflected a U.S. “double standard policy,” the real offense appeared to have come less from the Western women than from Saudi King Salman, who it implied had let down the entire Muslim world with his “disregard for religious values.”
“Muslims expect their top figures mainly the religious ones to abide by rule of Islamic law mainly at international level,” it said in an editorial.
“Negligence of religious leaders in observing shari’a law will leave detrimental consequences and its scope might be beyond expectations.”
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