Iranian state television reportedly edited images of Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen and Sweden's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard during a joint visit, covering their legs due to concerns of temptation, according to a social media post by Masih Alinejad on September 26th, 2025, at approximately 5:07 PM UTC. The post questioned the possibility of negotiating with a regime that perceives female ministers' ankles as a national security threat while women face severe penalties domestically. The social media post, which included a link to an X (formerly Twitter) post, characterized the Iranian regime as a "frat house of horny ayatollahs" for needing to hide women's ankles to prevent men from "sinning." It specifically addressed Valtonen and Stenergard, highlighting the perceived hypocrisy of a government that imposes strict rules on its female citizens. This development occurs amidst ongoing regional tensions. Earlier on September 26th, 2025, Israel launched airstrikes on the Houthi Security and Intelligence Service Headquarters in Sanaa, Yemen, in response to Houthi attacks. Additionally, reports indicated that a sanctioned oil tanker, falsely flagged as Comorian, was anchored within Malaysian territorial waters, potentially indicating an arrest by Malaysian authorities amid US pressure to enforce sanctions on Russian-linked oil traffic.
