Did Iranian TV really censor these women runners?
As international athletes faced off this week at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, a video claiming to show “censorship” of women’s athletics in Iran was viewed by more than three million times on Twitter. The video shows female sprinters with their bodies covered by crude black rectangles and asterisks. But the video in question dates back to 2013, and rather than censoring women’s sporting competitions, Iranian state TV tends not to broadcast them at all. The video has been circulating since late September, tweeted by ...
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