Back off! Don't touch me!

As a Muslim, you never can touch anybody from opposite sex if he/she is not a close relative of you. Shaking hands is one of the 'red lines' which when in public makes a funny situation sometimes. When inside homes, many Iranians don't give a damn to this kind of rules, in public you have to hold your hands and if there is a hand stretched to you (mostly by a non-Iranian who doesn't know about this rule) you have to blush of shame and say: "Sorry, I can't shake hands with you!."
A few years ago when our well-known film-maker Abbas Kiarostami won the golden palm of Cannes Film Festival, Catherine Deneuve was the one who was supposed to give the trophy to him. In the official ceremony, before the eyes of millions who were watching it on their TVs, she kissed poor Kiarostami and that made a terrible headache for him when he got back to the country. Later, I read somewhere that Rafsanjani, the then president had interfered to keep him safe of an arrest right after getting back to the country in the airport.
Here, the picture above shows another funny situation, this time for our new president visiting Indonesia; the lady is stretching her hand when he is holding his hand back. Like Ms Deneuve she didn't know the red line either.