NOT TAKING THE PLUNGE
Iranian TV channel ‘draws clothes’ on Charlize Theron during Oscars show when barely-there dress nearly exposed her breasts
Her revealing dress was a bit too much for Iranian censors
AN Iranian TV channel crudely covered up superstar actress Charlize Theron's bare skin during coverage of the Oscars.
The South African Oscar winner looked statuesque in a shimmering gold dress by Dior with a plunging neckline, a full pleated skirt - and a leg-baring slit.
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But it was all a bit too much for Iranian censors, who covered her up with a hastily-done blob as she took to the stage.
They also covered up a tiny nude figure on the dress of Iranian American Anousheh Ansari, an engineer who was the first female space tourist.
Ansari read a statement on behalf of Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi, who won the foreign language film Oscar for The Salesman but boycotted the ceremony because of US President Donald Trump's travel ban.
The clip from the ILNA news outlet was sent out by pressure group , which opposes the strict dress codes enforced after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
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Masih Alinejad, the founder of the group, said: "Another typical example of the Islamic Republic's fear of naked arms of Iranian women.
"It is shameful indeed, but that is how the Iranian media outlets based within the country have been covering such events for years.
"At a time when Farhadi chooses an astronaut and NASA scientist to prove a point about human rights not having 'borders', the Islamic Republic of Iran does the complete opposite by using Farhadi's wonderful Oscars statement for their own propaganda while blind to the meaning of his point."
Farhadi, whose film A Separation won the same prize in 2012, said it was a "great honour" to receive the prize for a second time.
He added: "I'm sorry I'm not with you tonight, my absence is out of respect for the people of my country and the other six nations who have been banned."
He continued: "Dividing the world into the us and the enemy categories creates fear, justification for war."
The statement said film-makers could turn their cameras to create empathy, saying it is ";an empathy we need today more than ever."
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