‘We Don’t Want Catwalk Models Here! Woman Barred From Office in Iran For Being Too Beautiful [PHOTO]

Iranian Nina Siahkali Moradi has been told she cannot have a seat on her
city's council because she is too beautiful for the role
An Iranian woman has been told she cannot have a seat on her city’s council
 because she is too beautiful for the role.Nina Siahkali Moradi finished 14th out
 of 163 candidates in the Qazvin city council elections, polling an impressive
 10,000 votes.But even though the result should have gained her a seat on the
 council, the 27-year-old candidate was disqualified with the council leader saying:
‘We don’t want catwalk models here.’According to the Independent,
 Ms Moradi had gained enough votes to become an ‘alternative member of
the council’ – making her a first reserve.When one councillor gave up his
seat, Ms Moradi should have been able to step in, but she was banned from doing so.
She found out a week after the election on June 14 that any votes cast for her
 had been nullified.According to the International Campaign for human Rights
 in Iran, her disqualification was as a result of her ‘non-observance of Islamic
 codes’.It has been suggested that her campaign posters prompted
ome of the council’s conservative elders to complain.Opponents to her
candidacy said that she had only been elected because because she is
 young and attractive.But on the posters she is wearing the required hijab
and has only her face showing.She also passed a series of rigourou
s checks carried out prior to polling day carried out by a range of authorities
including the police, intelligence ministry and the judiciary.The graduate student
had campaigned under the slogan ‘Young Ideas for a Young Future’.
The Qazvin election took place on the same day as the country’s presidential election.
Ironically, the newly elected President Hassan Rowhani has vowed to introduce
 new civil rights laws in the country, promising to drastically improve women’s rights.