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Iran sentences ‘Zombie Angelina Jolie’ to 10 years in jail for photos

                           An Iranian woman who shocked the internet with her attempts to look like actor Angelina Jolie has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to her lawyers in Iran.

Sahar Tabar, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, was sentenced last week for corruption of young people and disrespecting the Islamic Republic, The Guardian and BBC News Persian report. She will spend the next 10 years in prison, according to Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad.

“Her joke landed her in jail,” Alinejad tweeted on Friday. She also called for Jolie to intervene on Tabar’s behalf

        

                            Fatemeh Khishvand, known by her Instagram username of Sahar Tabar, is an Iranian influencer who rose to prominence in 2017 for her supposed use of cosmetic surgery (in fact, makeup and Photoshop) in images of herself posted to Instagram.It was rumored that she had altered her face through as many as fifty plastic surgeries. Tabar was interviewed on Iranian national television in October 2019 after she was arrested on charges including blasphemy and illegally obtaining money. Tabar was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in December 2020.

                           Cosmetic surgery is popular in Iran. The country has the highest rate of nose surgery in the world. A turned-up nose – or just wearing a nose bandage – is widely seen as fashionable, both among men and women, and among progressives and conservatives. Apart from beauty standards, the motivation for surgery may include expression of social status, marriage, self-expression, or boredom in a country with otherwise restricted dress codes. For some, it is "a reaction to the restrictive rules of compulsory hijab.

In the 1980s, the Ayatollah Khomeini spoke up in favor of rhinoplasty. He referred to the Hadith, asserting that since it indicates that "God is beautiful and loves beauty" actions taken to be more beautiful are endorsed by it.