VOLLEY, Iran, minigonne e maxi censura

Le ragazze di Sassari non avrebbero mai pensato di poter diventare, almeno per un paio d’ore, motivo turbamento per la televisione iraniana, che ha trasmesso in diretta la partita di pallavolo della World League tra l’Italia di Berruto e l’Iran di Velasco. Per certi aspetti tutto il mondo è paese, anche agli iraniani piace vincere ed ora che la Nazionale di volley, sotto la guida di Julio Velasco, ha imparato a vincere, c’è grande seguito in Tv. 
Milioni di persone hanno assistito nelle ultime settimane alle partite che l’Iran ha giocato in Serbia e in Italia. Serbe e italiane, ragazze fresche e belle, nel loro genuino entusiasmo per il volley. Aggiungete il caldo soffocante e non c’è da stupirsi se nei palasport circolavano abiti mini, braccia scoperte, gambe innocentemente in vista. Il guaio è stato che, naturalmente, anche le giovani bellezze iraniane che facevano il tifo nei palasport, somigliavano molto più alle loro omologhe serbe e italiane, nell’abbigliamento, assai lontano dai dettami della moda (se così si può chiamare) imposti dalle legge iraniana alle donne.
Come potete leggere sotto nel bell’articolo del Japan Times, l’invasione delle minigonne e delle generose scollature, ha obbligato i tecnici della tv iraniana ad intervenire massicciamente con la censura. Al posto delle braccia, delle straripanti porzioni di seni in fuga dai reggiseni, delle cosce e dei sorrisi delle ragazze che tifando volley esprimevano la loro voglia di vita, mandavano in onda replay delle azioni della partita. Insomma, mini gonne, maxi replay: roba da soddisfare gli onanisti del calcio alla moviola.
Non solo, c’è un altro guaio: indispettiti dalla esasperante e massiccia censura, i telespettatori iraniani (alcuni di loro pare siano stati sorpresi in pose stile Fantozzi, abbracciati ai televisori…Ma non so se on line circolino queste foto) potrebbero riversarsi sulle tv satellitari, impossibili da censurare, per ammirare non tanto le partite di volley, quanto le procaci e disinibite tifose.
Certo, l’ex presidentissimo della Federazione Mondiale di Volley Acosta ne ha pensate tante, ma non credo immaginasse che la sua World League sarebbe diventata uno spettacolo… a luci rosse (verdi e bianche, i colori dell’Iran).
Ora c’è grande preoccupazione in Iran, televisivamente parlando, per la prossima trasferta a Cuba, dove il caldo e le abitudini locali, fanno sospettare che al palasport non vadano ragazze incappottate. 
Le autorità iraniane stanno cercando di allacciare al volo un legame con i loro colleghi cubani e di inviare 20.000 chador da offrire gratuitamente a tutte le donne che andranno a vedere Cuba-Iran. E’ una lotta contro il tempo. 
Pare però che ci sia il rischio, se non la certezza, di boicottaggio da parte del ministro dello sport cubano e del ct Orlando Samuels. Nessuno a Cuba, infatti, ha dimenticato che ai Mondiali del 1990, a Rio de Janeiro, proprio l’attuale ct dell’Iran, Julio Velasco, impedì a Cuba di diventare Campione del Mondo, guidando alla vittoria l’Italia. Quindi i suoi datori di lavoro, si beccassero le belle cosce e le scollature cubane!

Dal JAPAN TIMES

  

Iran volleyball streak flusters censors

AFP-JIJI

TEHRAN – Iran’s triumphant
volleyball run has created a dilemma for its state broadcaster, which is
struggling to tailor its coverage of matches — attended by scantily
dressed women — to the moral guidelines of the Islamic republic.
Competing for the first time in the FIVB Volleyball World League,
Iran is seen as the underdog. But sports-mad Iranians have fallen head
over heels for the game after European hotshots Serbia and Italy were
unexpectedly defeated.
The away matches against a strong Italy on Friday and Sunday were
aired live and watched by millions back in Iran, but viewers were
treated to two very different broadcasts.
During the first match in Sardinia, state TV broadcast crowd footage
of women dressed in T-shirts, tank tops and miniskirts — attire suitable
for the Mediterranean heat. The images also showed some female Iranian
fans, the national flag painted on their faces, mingling with men and
wearing clothing that is publicly banned in the Islamic nation.
The broadcast, as well as another incident in which Colombian pop
sensation Shakira was shown on Iranian TV in a short dress cheering her
husband, Spanish soccer star Gerard Pique, drew the ire of
conservatives, who staunchly advocate the regime’s interpretation of
Islamic Shariah law, which has been enforced since the 1979 revolution.
Women in Iran, regardless of their nationality or religion, are
required to cover their hair and body and to shun the use of heavy
make-up and nail polish. They are also banned from sports stadiums, and
can only attend women-only competitions.
Rules dictate that Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting delete or
crop out images of women clad in un-Islamic clothes in movies or news
reports. However, applying those rules to live sporting events, aired
with just a seven-second delay, has proved to be more challenging.
The ultraconservative Ya Lessarat weekly on Wednesday slammed the
IRIB’s “scandalous” conduct, while outspoken Tehran lawmaker Ali
Motahari sharply criticized images he said did not conform to Islamic
rules.
Responding to the criticism, IRIB chief Ezzatollah Zarghami said
boycotting live matches would only compel viewers to turn to satellite
channels.
“In (live) situations, it is out of our hands. The only solution
would be not to broadcast the game at all,” said Zarghami, who was
directly appointed by the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “If we
do that, the viewership will turn to satellite (dishes).”
Iran considers hundreds of channels beamed onto its airwaves as part
of a “soft war” launched by the West to corrupt the moral and Islamic
values of Iranian families, who use the channels when seeking
alternatives to state-controlled TV.
Zarghami said he had conferred with clerics who, worried about people
tuning to satellite channels, advised him to broadcast but under
“controlled” conditions. “Parts of the play were cut and replaced with
repeats,” Zarghami said of the second away game against Italy that Iran
lost Sunday.
The broadcast of that match was regularly interrupted by replays of
points, which resulted in “viewers glued to the floor watching the game .
. . being irritated by (the censorship),” Zarghami said, according to
the reformist Shargh daily.
The Iranian team’s next away matches, later Friday and on Saturday,
will be against bottom-ranked Cuba, where Zarghami fears spectators will
be dressed even more inappropriately, he said: “The spectators come
from different cultures and (are dressed) differently. The situation
will be more sensitive due to the heat.”
Zarghami added jokingly that he wants to “negotiate with our Cuban
cultural counterparts to dress the spectators in tracksuits to resolve
this problem.”
His remarks come as President-elect Hassan Rowhani, who will take
office in August, has expressed willingness to ease restrictions on
state TV and online censorship. “The majority of the young people have
turned their back against state television because they see it lacking
sincerity, morality and justice,” Rowhani was quoted as saying in a
recent Shargh interview.
Rowhani, a cleric, won Iran’s June 14 election to succeed President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sweeping aside rivals from the conservative camps.
His victory sparked street parties across Iran, with mit. en and women
dancing and singing as police looked on.

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