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June 26 - Italy: man who filmed ex-iranian president and grappa heiresses speaks

Autore: Orma
From: AKI
June 26, 2007


Udine, Italy, 26 June (AKI) - Video footage showing former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, a Muslim Shiite cleric, shaking hands with several women - a taboo gesture for Islamists - including two Italian grappa heiresses, has provoked controversy in Iran. But the man who filmed the scene, Marco Orioles, a university sociology lecturer from the northeastern Italian town Udine, has told Adnkronos International (AKI) he didn't want to provoke a commotion.

Khatami's office has denied that the cleric during a trip last month to Italy intentionally shook hands with women - as shown in Orioles' footage broadcast on the 'YouTube' website In a statement the cleric's office said that the footage had either been edited to give a false impression, or else Khatami had shaken the hands of people in a crowd without realising they were female.
"None of the 67,000 people who in the first few days viewed the 'incriminating' footage will have had any doubt as to its authenticity," Orioles told AKI. He was referring to the number of times the footage was viewed In it Khatami is seen exchanging handshakes with Gianola and Cristina Nonnino, well-known producers of grappa, or Italian husk brandy, in the region around Udine.

The images captured on 12 May when the former Iranian president, visited Udine to give a lecture, have prompted some radical conservatives in Iran to call for Khatami to be stripped of his clerical robes for having offended Islam. “I wanted to follow Khatami's speech because I realised it would have been an important event in terms of the dialogue between cultures. What happened next deserves a serious reflection on what that dialogue between cultures actually consists of," said Orioles whose action has unwittingly fuelled the debate in Iran between reformers and hardliners close to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The Iranian hardline daily Kayhan suggested Khatami, a moderate cleric who was president of Iran from 1997 until 2005, had allowed himself to fall prey of a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trap. “I think the CIA only discovered it had a modest sociology lecuturer as an agent in Udine, the day after Kayhan published its editorial," Orioles said.

(Rah/Aki)

Jun-26-07 16:05

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