Iranian actress banned from returning home after posing nude in French magazine

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An actress who has starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe has been banished from her home country of Iran – because she posed nude in a French news magazine, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday. Golshifteh Farahani says she has been contacted by the Iranian government, telling her that she is no longer welcome in the country and advising her not to return home.
The offending photo – a black-and-white ‘art shot’ featuring the 28-year-old Farahani posing against a black backdrop with her hands strategically placed over her breasts – was first published in Madame Le Figaro. The image was then posted on her Facebook page, drawing visitors from around the world – including Iran and the Middle East.
While many criticised her ‘indecency’, others praised her for ‘the courage to remove a taboo among the women in Muslim countries’. Iran’s anger at the image is not just because of Farahani’s nudity – she has also made it known that her decision to pose is in protest against restrictive Islamic codes.
Indeed, it is why the now-Paris-based actress left Iran last year. Farahani has had a mercurial relationship with her home country. She began acting in theatre at the age of six and her first film, ‘The Pear Tree’, earned the then 14-year-old the Best Actress award at Iran’s annual Fajr Film Festival.
She immediately became a leading actress in her home country, yet her performance in the 2007 film ‘Santoori’ has never been seen in Iran and is still banned. She starred in ‘M For Mother’, which after a huge success in Iran was chosen to represent Iran for the Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards in 2008.
Farahani’s role as a nurse in Ridley Scott’s ‘Body of Lies’ made her the first Iranian to act in a major Hollywood film. As a result she was banned from leaving Iran, and – now that she has left the country and is living in Paris – she appears to be banned from returning.

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93 COMMENTS

  2. She should go to India. India treated Sunny Leone like a celebrity. At least the Iranian actress is not a porn actress.

  3. Why this is not applicable in Pakistan??? Yes, you guessed it right whom I am talking about? !

    M. R@fique Zakaria
    Karachi.

    • .
      Why do you want to 'stop'? After all, Pakistan ranks at the top on porn search in the web worldwide …
      .

      • Yes, cuz in India, people don't have to look for it on internet. They can easily find prostitutes all over the country

    • It is one's own wish when he is an adult to do whatever he or she likes regardless of what people think and especially pakistani mentality people! You have no right to say on other people matters and what they want to do!

  11. They should be extra careful and cautiouswhile doing this as they r the ambassadors of their own countries. If they disown their culture and society values then country men r equally right doing so.

    • .
      Would you rather like to meet her in one-on-one dinner in Paris? I know, I would. The bill is mine …
      .

    • Why? Because she has guts? That's what we Pakistanis do to everyone who stands for change! We should hang those who want to hang people like Veena, no matter how much we may disagree with what she's doing!

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      Soo her out — no problem. But allow us to collect her pictures. Because work magic on me …
      .

    • I support Veena 100% and so do some of my friends… we as a people should just relax a little…there are more things in this world to stress about!

    • Uun ka to pata nahin, magar hum Pakistanion ki ghairat aurat ki taangon ki beech mein phansi hui hai…!!!

    • .
      nah …

      You should not hang me or bang Veena. Because we are planning for a mutually consented 'live virgin encounter' …
      .

  33. Mister Muhammad Bilal Sultan, i HATE to break it to you, but its pretttt-tttyyy obvious that Veena posed nude, my ar** did she pose topless. And as for above, tch tch tch….

  35. Loosing her decency for a protest??? This is the low that such women bring to the womenhood, as they put all women in shame! I can only say that her acts were disgusting! Women are like angels, but some think that by exposing their naked bodies they are achieving something, God help them!

    • fara who are you to decide that she was going low. Tum koi authority ho logon ko low bana nai ki. she did what she wanted to do and no need to get melo dramtic that she put all women to shame. maybe u r feeling ashamed cause u grew up in a conservative household. Your feelings where repressed, so when u see someone exercising her freedom. you feel left out and jealous so you go online and vent out your frustrations like this. learn to mind your own business. dont start labeling people as corrupt or bad without knowing them. she went nude maybe because in her morality its not an issue. its not that she stole or killed someone.

  36. Thats the way the real patriot government react and look at our government they had no words for Veena Malik who has brought a bad name to Pakistan, I had given my views earlier on that she should not be allowed to enter Pakistan and her nationality be cancelled but i think we have no self respect. Shame on us and our leaders.

  37. She should rather come to Pakistan, where Kanjar Culture is thriving at full throttle under the official patronage!

  40. The root cause of apologetic and modernized Muslims is inferiority complex vis a vis all things Western. This also indicates importance of social sciences based on Quranic worldview, because that is the only way to overcome this root problem and help Muslims start taking benefit from Heavenly guidance as cure to modern diseases and eclipse of soul and mind. http://sites.google.com/site/asaduzaman

  43. Iranian Muslims would kill her if she returned – I would not be surprised if credible death ideations are formed against her.

  44. The fools should understand that the main goal of the jew Zionist Khazars allied with hindu Zionists is to break the FIGHTING spirit of the muslims. For this purpose, they are attacking the people of Allah. These are the Iranian religious people, clerical and otherwise, the pakistani people, who are religious, and the arabs who are trying to bring either democracy or benevolent dictators. They killed a benevolent dictator like Muammar Gaddafi, and tried to kill a democrat like Hugo Chavez and protected a dictator like Al-Saud and Mobarak of Egypt.

    Once, any of you fools, country is broken, which is journey from your eyes to your heart to you mind to your courage, you will be DUST of the earth, like the KASHMIRIS, PALESTINIANS, MEXICANS, RED INDIANS and NEGRO SLAVES.

    Then you shall pull your hairs and slap your selves daily.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7kGZ3XPEm4

    Your BIGGG slaughter is coming SOON at the hands of INDIA and ISRAEL … like Allah destroyed LUTT with fire and brimstone …………

  46. The fools should understand that the main goal of the jew Zionist Khazars allied with hindu Zionists is to break the FIGHTING spirit of the muslims. For this purpose, they are attacking the people of Allah. These are the Iranian religious people, clerical and otherwise, the pakistani people, who are religious, and the arabs who are trying to bring either democracy or benevolent dictators. They killed a benevolent dictator like Muammar Gaddafi, and tried to kill a democrat like Hugo Chavez and protected a dictator like Al-Saud and Mobarak of Egypt.

  47. Once, any of you fools' country is broken, which is journey from your eyes to your heart to you mind to your courage, you will be DUST of the earth, like the KASHMIRIS, PALESTINIANS, MEXICANS, RED INDIANS and NEGRO SLAVES. Your property and honor will be kosher on others to violate. You will be slaves for maybe 500 years, maybe FOR EVER !!!

    Then you shall pull your hairs and slap your selves daily.

    Your BIGGG slaughter is coming SOON at the hands of INDIA and ISRAEL … like Allah destroyed LUTT with fire and brimstone …………

  48. Once, any of you fools' country is broken, which is journey from your eyes to your heart to you mind to your courage, you will be DUST of the earth, like the KASHMIRIS, PALESTINIANS, MEXICANS, RED INDIANS and NEGRO SLAVES. Your property and honor will be kosher on others to violate. You will be slaves for maybe 500 years, maybe FOR EVER !!!

  50. Once, any of you fools' country is broken, which is journey from your eyes to your heart to you mind to your courage, you will be DUST of the earth, like the KASHMIRIS, PALESTINIANS, MEXICANS, RED INDIANS and BLACK SLAVES. Your property and honor will be kosher on others to violate. You will be slaves for maybe 500 years, maybe FOR EVER !!!

  51. Once, any of you fools' country is broken, which is journey from your eyes to your heart to you mind to your courage, you will be DUST of the earth, like the KASHMIRIS, PALESTINIANS, MEXICANS, RED INDIANS and BLACK SLAVES. Your property and honor will be kosher on others to violate. You will be slaves for maybe 500 years, maybe FOR EVER !!!

    Then you shall pull your hairs and slap your selves daily.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7kGZ3XPEm4

    Your BIGGG slaughter is coming SOON at the hands of INDIA and ISRAEL … like Allah destroyed LUTT with fire and brimstone …………

    • well said bro……..pakistan needs to restructure its institutions the iranian way…

  54. quite ironic we see nude woman of other countries .most young generation even watches porn and lose their sexuality .but still we criticize woman for posing nude ,doing public sex .if man stop watching it .this disease would die out itself .

  55. I think they should ban all the ugly fat mullahs with long ugly beard, fat belly and those stupid ankle length salwar.
    I would rather watch veena or this iranian actress walking on the streets of lahore…so pleasing to the eyes.

  58. Muslim countries are bullies, forcing their citizen into living their prescribed way of life. She did what she wanted to do, and instead making it an issue they should let it go. We must not act like as if islam is under attack. its because of this kind of attitude that people move away from religion in the first place. The actress has every right to live her life as she pleases.

  59. y ban veena.. is every other paki girl covering their face..well veena is being a lil brave..and y ban her only..so many other mess is happening in pak..ppl doing corruption, earning black money without any trace of shame..look @ the western world..they don have such restriction on girls but they r far more honest and ethical thn us..y only girls have to pay whn it's abt ethics in our country?

  60. No..its not faharani but **Mahmoud Ahmadinejad**…..Nudity is allowed in iran in closed doors…

  61. Let this actress be entered to Pakistan as it is very safe heaven for her.Bcoz Veena malik has laft the effects on other muslim commubnity very effectivenly.

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