Iranian authorities say they want to crack down on women promoting “Western” promiscuity.

Iranian authorities have arrested eight models who post photos of themselves on Instagram and are deleting their accounts, which they say are "un-Islamic."

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Tehran's cybercrime court announced the news about the arrest over the weekend but didn't reveal the models' identities. Investigators also said they identified at least 170 people who were involved in modeling, photography, and fashion on Instagram.

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Iranian police has said it has compiled a database of hundreds of popular Iranian Instagram accounts.

The accounts — like other Instagram accounts around the world — have been used to share selfies and photographs of their owners wearing makeup and fashionable clothes. Some of the Iranian women's accounts have hundreds of thousands of followers and despite the arrests of the eight women, many others remain active.

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