I see nothing wrong with what Ahmedinajad did by embracing the old mother of the deceased Venezuelan president ; the atmosphere in funerals and in periods of mourning is always an atmosphere of sadness and piety , and there is no way that act of hugging could have aroused any carnal desire. Equally , I do not agree with Iran's clerics who criticized him for that , and I reject any attempt by " religious leaders " to monopolize religious authority to the point of abusing Islam and moslems too .

Hugging or expressing emotions is improper for the dignity of the president of a country THEY don't have a president who bows to the king of Saudi Arabia. Now THAT is a disgrace.

to pull the nuclear trigger. Next thing you know, he's going to be admitting the Holocaust actually DID happen.

but I guess showing affection against women is a sin in their religion

For these same clerics is "halal" to marry and/or rape underage girls and even babies in private...

If touching or hugging is improper, just wait until he gets a nuclear weapon and wants to brutalize, subjugate, and kill.

I'm not Chavez's mother.

mother's hand close to his heart, not a hug or a carnal kiss.

Now that the Iranian president has committed a grave sin in the eyes of the Ayatollas, we may even see him flogged in the centre of Tehran.

well, clerics of iran, enforce your law like you did to the poor women and girls that you stone, is it going to be public, or private this time, its a real test of the clerics authenticity , it was just a test. islam is not islam until every man is held accountable for his crimes against the holy body of the human, including many clerics who have stoned innocent people.

unrelated women sounds like haredi Orthodox Judaism. It's the same logic.

I see that Ahm...became a caliente man in Venezuela:he is kissing everything-from Chavez´s mother to Chavez´s coffin. He seems even to have converted to catholicism! Let him few more days there and he will go back to Iran dancing samba! That will be funny!

if ever there was a phoney mamoood PR STUNT PHOTO, this is it... what a sham! a put-up shot he posed for practiced for and set-up so he could be portrayed as "the heroic endearing figure"...sorry it doesn't wash! what a baloney slicing slob! Using the death of a mother's son to make the front page...what a snake.

Sharia law requires beheading for this offense.

And they cover their women entirely. This explains a lot. And they're always kissing each other. That's probably not all they do when their holed up in those mosques of theirs with nothing but men.

he's not pulling any trigger because he's just a puppet. The mullahs will

Go figure! I didn't think I would EVER take the same side as Akmadinejad. But, c'mon, puleeeese...! Comforting a greiving mother with a kind touch? What kind of a doctrinal tight-a would condemn that? There is such a thing as simple humanity. I'm touched to see it shown, disgusted to see it condemned.

Not stupid, if a bit do-la-ally, Ahmad is making sure he has a bolt hole that will accommodate him in the style he has grown accustomed to when Khamenei topples him in the summer. The photo holding the mother's hand is nothing as bad as his kissing a heathen's coffin, or befriending non muslim credo. Curtain Ahmad

You see? Orthodox Halacha and Sharia have more common points than what you think.

Roll-up Roll-up get your tickets here folks

Looks like first shots in the election campaign to ease him out.

I hope Ahmadinejad did not have pre-martial sex, for the ayatollahs would really have been furious over it. When Iranian students were studying in the United States, they were having it all of the time. When Shimon Peres dies, Ahmadinejad can come and kiss his casket too.

The irony of it all is if Ahmadinejad had done something like that in Iran he would probably be committing a criminal offence.

The real abuse will start after the introduction of hell at the end of time.

He's grieving for his ideological brother. That's one less America-hating, antisemitic tinpot dictator in the world.