In the days of the 2024 Olympic Games, video and screenshots diverged on the rune, as claimed, from the Iranian broadcast of the competition. It is reported that local television channels edit the video, since the form of athletes does not comply with the laws of the country. We checked the correctness of such publications.
At the end of July 2024, a short video was popular in the Russian segment of Telegram, in which the open parts of the body of athletes participating in certain competitions were hidden under the frames overlined on top of the frames with black rectangles and stars. “Nothing unusual, the Olympic Games on Iranian television just look like that,” says Telegram channel “Bottle"(157,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). Channel "Evil rabbit 18+”(66,000 views) added:“ According to Iranian laws, only those competitions in which athletes in hijabach take part on television. Typically, Iranian electronic and print media do not cover international sports competitions among women, since their sportswear does not comply with established standards. ” Similar posts appeared in the channels "Heaven is"(161,000 views),"Krave Krab 18+"(78 000),"EP"(62 000),"Atheist"(35,000),"What happened?"(34,000),"Apigenic Russia"(29,000), as well as in publics on VKontakte (examples here, here And here).
In early August, in VKontakte, publications were encircled, where in addition to the mentioned video mentioned above, three more “bent” shots with athletes, who are absent in that video. For example, such posts can be found in communities "Slaughter humor"(236,000 views),"Business info"(195 000),"Infom"(93,000),"Secular chronicle"(80 000),"Interesting facts"(34,000),"Associated"(25,000),"Egoist"(25,000),"Funny student"(21,000) and others.
Video
On a 43-second video distributed, competitions in three disciplines are shown: height jumping, running with obstacles and jumping into water. At the same time, the bodies of athletes are almost completely hidden under the dark rectangles or stars, but sometimes these figures do not keep up with the girls, because of which the body becomes noticeable for moments. In the upper right corner of the video is the logo of the Iranian television channel IRIB TV3, and in the lower part for a few seconds there is a wrapper @mahvareh_news1. The profile with such a username on Instagram* actually published a similar video on July 23, 2024, three days before Beginning Paris Olympiad, and his post Sicked More than 25,000 likes. The signature for the video reads: “With the beginning of the largest sporting event of the last few years-the Olympic Games-television of the Islamic Republic of Iran will not be able to cover the competition due to restrictions and censorship.”
The video spread widely outside the Runet, in connection with which it Turned Attention, AFP agency fact. They found out that the viral video appeared on the network a few years ago. For example, with similar comments about censorship on Iranian television, he distributed on Facebook* in time Summer Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
Thanks to the opposite search for the screenshot, Factchera found on YouTube video clip Duration of about 2 minutes, containing scenes from a viral recording. This video was published on the platform back in 2013, and a yellow emblem is noticeable in its lower left corner. AFP found out what it is Logo show Onten - satirical transmission, prepared Persian service "Voice of America **". The full scene with the supposedly broadcast of the Olympics was shown in 51st episode, which was posted on the YouTube channel Onten on July 12, 2013, and later was repeated in 57th release. Also on the channel this fragment published Separately with English subtitles.
In the transfer, statements of Iranian politicians about sports and women were ridiculed. For example, in response to the idea of the then head of the national media company IRIB Ezatollai Zargami, refuse to broadcast football and volleyball matches, since there may be girls in inappropriate clothes in the stands. Offered Cut the frames with the audience or replace them with inserts only with men.
Back in 2019, Onten producer Saman Arbabi in the AFP commentary called that fragment a joke and Explained Its meaning: “My show was comedy, and that segment was designed to make fun of the Iranian government for not translating female sport. This segment was a "offer" for those who censored television shows, including female sport. "
According to the agency, Iran state television, as a rule, is very Not much reports About women's sports. To be shown on the air on the air, she must be "Similarly" Dressed - In particular, wear a scarf on your head and almost completely close the body. Often, when covering women's international sports competitions, only Iranian participants showed high results.
Thus, a video that allegedly demonstrates censorship during the Olympic Games on Iranian television is satirical in the summer of 2024. The original video, in which the athletes are closed with black rectangles and stars, was published back in 2013.
Screenshots
Three screenshots distributed on VKontakte are shown runners whose open parts of the bodies are also closed with black rectangles or stars. However, the corresponding fragments are absent both in a viral video and in the full release of ONTEN. Moreover, on one of the screenshots in the upper left corner, part of the logo of the Russian television channel "HD Sports".
According to data AFP, users of social networks shared a video with these personnel back in 2019, during the World Athletics Championship, passing In Doha. In the signatures to those posts also Approvedthat this is how women's competitions are censored in Iran. However, the user Fake Investigation on the social network X (then - Twitter) I found outthat the video is captured Runheld in 2013 in Paris at the tournament within the framework Diamond League.
Using a reverse search for key screenshots obtained thanks to the tool Invid, the fact of the CHECHERS established that with a high probability the video for the first time appeared On March 14, 2016, on the Russian-speaking YouTube channel “LIF Laboratory of interesting facts”. The video description reads: “Different peoples have their own culture and history. Which seems to be familiar and is considered the norm, others are considered unacceptable. Let's see what the broadcast of women's sports competitions on Arab television channels looks like. ”
In the comments under the video, one of the users wrote: “It looks clumsy, so I doubt the authenticity. Where are the videos, come from. ” In response, the authors of the channel confirmed that this is supposedly Arab television - the “fruit of fantasy”.
Although it is not known for certain, which served as a source of inspiration for the video of the “Laboratory of interesting facts”, it is very similar to the Onten transmission fragment. In an AFP commentary, producer of the show Saman Arbabi declared: "They clearly copied our video."
Thus, the three distributed screenshots also do not show the broadcast of the Olympic Games on Iranian television. Images are taken from the video published in 2016 on YouTube. Its authors themselves denied the authenticity of the recording.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Instagram and Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
** Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation Brought “Voice of America” in the so-called register of “media-foreign agents”.
Photo on the cover: social networks / collage "Checked" / nten / @lif1827
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