If Omar Borkan al-Gala was deported from Saudi Arabia because of being "too handsome", an Iranian woman was banned from her own city for being "too sexy".

An Iranian woman, Nina Siakhali Moradi, deemed too sexy, was banned from running a city council post after religious conservatives rallied against her. She had 10,000 votes in June election which made her, supposedly, qualified for a council seat at Qazvin, the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, 100 miles north west of Tehran.

"We don't want a catwalk model on the council," a senior political official told the local press.

According to the review board which handled Ms Moradi's case, the elderly think that she was just elected because she was beautiful and young. Elder conservatives of the review board took Ms Moradi's youthful and artistic posters and campaign materials against her as clear proof that she was too sexy to be a councillor.

Nonsensically, Ms Moradi's campaign posters had her wearing the traditional Hijab as seen in the photo featured from Iran Wire. Her face was cleared of any strand of hair but conservative religious groups upheld that she should be disqualified.

According to a detailed report from the local news portal , Ms Moradi had finished a degree in engineering and Web site design from Qazvin's Azad University. There she also skilfully mastered calligraphy and martial arts. Her unique background made her campaign materials creative. Her campaign was made all the more hip by her campaign manager who was an artist. With this perfect combination, Ms Moradi's campaign posters stood out from her conservative counterparts. Her campaign headquarters became a favourite meet up place for her young supporters. Consequently, the sight of young people flocking together provoked judgement from her older conservative rivals.

Ms Moradi's political platform also runs under the motto, "Young ideas for a young future," much to the fury of the older candidates. They deem her platform as "vulgar and anti religious".

When another candidate had won for a mayoral seat and a City Council seat was left, Ms Moradi could have her chance because her number of votes qualifies her for the runner-up position. However, voting officials did not contact her.

"Almost 10,000 people voted for me and based on that I should be the first alternate member of the City Council. I have no information as to why they did this, you need to ask them," a disappointed Ms Moradi told the local press.