Father isn’t dancing at Iranian daughter’s funeral in viral video

Protests have erupted all through the world after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian girl, was detained by the nation’s morality police for allegedly not adhering to Iran’s strict Islamic gown code and later died in police custody.  

Women protesters in Iran and different nations have taken off their headscarves and minimize their hair in a present of solidarity with Amini. 

After Amini’s dying, some folks on social media shared a video that they declare reveals an Iranian father who promised he would dance at his daughter’s marriage ceremony as an alternative dancing at her funeral after she was killed by the nation’s morality police for not masking her hair. One of these videos shared on Twitter has almost 500,000 views and greater than 10,000 shares. 

Does a viral video present an Iranian father dancing at his daughter’s funeral?

No, a viral video doesn’t present an Iranian father dancing at his daughter’s funeral. 

The viral video doesn’t present an Iranian father dancing at his daughter’s funeral after she was killed by the morality police. It’s an edited clip from a TV collection referred to as “Ata Ocaği” from Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan is bordered in the north by Russia, in the west by Armenia and in the south by Iran. 

The footage used in the viral video is from the 78th episode of the TV collection, which Azerbaijani TV network Xezer Film shared on YouTube in January 2018. “Ata Ocaği” is centered round a household battle, in line with the video’s caption.

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At about 19:25 into the video, actor Qurban Ismayilov, who’s incorrectly labeled in the viral clip as a mourning Iranian father, is seen dancing in the episode of the TV present. This actual footage from the present was used to make the edited social media clip. 

When evaluating the 2 movies, you can too hear that the TV present and edited viral clip use totally different songs. The edited viral clip makes use of a model of the song “Another Love” by English singer-songwriter Tom Odell. In the TV present, the song “Men Gedecem” by Azerbaijani rapper Miri Yusif performs throughout the scene. 

This isn’t the primary time that edited clips from the TV present have been shared on-line, claiming to point out an Iranian father mourning the lack of his daughter. 

Through a reverse picture search, VERIFY discovered a put up shared on Imgur in 2021 utilizing the identical footage from “Ata Ocaği.” In this model, the poster claimed that the person’s daughter died from coronavirus relatively than police violence. 

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