Iraq's Beauty Queen Resigns After Four Days

April 12, 2006
ABC News
By HAIDER HAMZA


BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 10, 2006 — Iraq's newly crowned beauty queen, Tamar Goregian, has decided to step down — just four days after her election, making this the shortest reign in the pageant's 60-year history.

On April 9, the 23-year-old, who was the first Armenian Iraqi to win the Miss Iraq pageant, announced her resignation after receiving threats by a group of religious extremists who referred to her as "the queen of infidels" for participating in the contest.
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Miss Teen Iraq, Silva Shahakian, a Christian {another Armenian}, accepted the title.
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