Iran Sex Tape: "It Wasn't Me". Argues that her ex-fiancé manipulated the images in the video, placing her features on the face of another woman.
Iran Sex Tape: "It Wasn't Me".
By EURSOC Two
23 November, 2006
The actress at the centre of Iran's biggest (only?) sex scandal for years claims that a video alleged to show her having sex with her ex-boyfriend is a fake. If the authorities don't buy her story, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi faces a ruined career and possibly public lashing under Tehran's indecency laws.
The actress, star of one of Iran's long-running soaps, argues that her ex-fiancé manipulated the images in the video, placing her features on the face of another woman. She says he did this for revenge after she dumped him for philandering.
The contrast with the US celebrity, Paris Hilton, whose supposedly private sex tape launched her career, couldn't be starker. Hilton is a permanent feature in gossip columns, has a recording contract and has appeared in films since her former boyfriend leaked a sex tape to the press: Ebrahimi faces a bleak future in the increasingly viciously puritan Iran.
Her former lover is himself in custody, facing a three year prison sentence and fine following his extradition to face charges related to the tape. Ms Ebrahimi herself could escape the usual 99 lashes for sex outside marriage, the Guardian reports, as there is a lack of corraborating evidence that it is indeed her in the video. She has already been subject to intense interrogation by Iran's police - and will have noted that Tehran's chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi is calling for the death sentence for anyone convicted of distributing sex videos.
Extradition over a sex tape, long interrogations, talk of the death penalty: All evidence that Iran is using its home-grown sex scandal as an opportunity to crack down even harder on morality.
In the interests of, er, "research", EURSOC tracked down the video. A photo in the Guardian shows that Ms Ebrahami is what we in the west describe as a fox, but it's far from clear that she's the performer in the video: Only her partner, a kind of Borat without his moustache (and complete with white socks) appears clearly on camera.
Over 100,000 copies of the video have circulated in Tehran, not to mention countless others on the internet.
Elmat is going to pursue this until is clarified tottally without doubt. He strated seeking the evidence already! |
