Iran accuses Kim Kardashian of being a secret agent

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has been accused of being a secret agent by Iran.

According to Iranian officials, the 35-year-old Keeping Up With The Kardashians star is attempting to purposefully corrupt Iranian women by posting provocative selfies and snapshots, a US magazine reported.

The Organised Cyberspace Crimes Unit (OCCU) of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps feels that Kardashian, whose Instagram account and Twitter feed together have more than 115 million followers, is a cohort of Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom.

“They are targeting young people and women. Foreigners are behind it because it is targeting families. These schemes originate from around the Persian Gulf and England. When you draw the operational graph, you will see that it is a foreign operation. Ms Kim Kardashian is a popular fashion model, so Instagram’s CEO tells her, ‘make this native.’ There is no doubt that financial support is involved as well. We are taking this very seriously,” OCCU spokesman Mostafa Alizadeh said.

The agency works to keep a check on domestic culture and ensure that Iranian citizens are not influenced by other nations.

Earlier this week, as part of the crackdown over Instagram photos — known as “Operation Spider 2” — eight models were arrested for posting photos on Instagram of themselves not wearing headscarves. And amidst reports that secret police is out on the streets of Tehran to enforce the headscarf, Minoo Khaleghi, who was elected to Parliament from Isfahan with 193,399 votes, was disqualified from entering the Parliament after photos showing her in public without a headscarf emerged.