Ayatollahene har en oppfatning av anstendighet som gjør dem til latter ikke bare utenfor landets grenser. Nylig overførte en iransk kanal en kamp i Premier League med kvinnelig dommer. Da gikk sensuren bananas: Loven forbyr å vise en «naken» kvinne, der hår og naken hud synes.

Censorship in Iran: business as usual!

This is not a joke. Iranian state TV cuts off parts of a football match more than 100 times because the assistant referee was a woman wearing shorts.

An article by @vahid_yucesoy.https://t.co/H116y2t8oH

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) April 13, 2021

Sardar Pashaei, a world champion gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling for Iran, tweeted: «Last night, Iran TV interrupted the important game between Manchester United and Tottenham dozens of times, censoring its images, just because one of the referee’s match was a woman (@SianMasseyRef)[Sian Massey]. Will @FIFAcom [International Federation of Association Football] voice its objection to this gender discrimination by Iran?”

Regimet har malt seg inn i et hjørne. Få ting har gjort teokratiet mer upopulært enn tvangsinnpakking av kvinner.

Hvor brutalt regimet er demonstrerte henrettelsen av bryteren Navid Afkari.

Pashaei was also the coach of Iran’s Greco-Roman wrestling team and a key activist in the campaign to secure justice for Navid Afkari, a wrestler executed by the regime in September 2020 for his demonstration against corruption in the Islamic Republic.

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