No, This Video Doesn’t Show Iranian Woman ‘Sending a Message’ to Islamic Regime

The woman in the video is Tamta Sabelashvili who first shared the video in July 2023.

An old video of a Georgian influencer has gone viral with the false claim that it shows an Iranian woman dancing to send a 'powerful message to the Islamic regime'.

(Source: X (formerly Twitter)/Altered by The Quint)

A video of a woman in black dress dancing barefoot in the rain has gone viral on social media, where users are linking it to the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict.

The claim: Those sharing this video have claimed that it shows an Iranian woman dancing to send a message to 'send a message' to the Islamic regime in her country.

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

(Source: X/Screenshot)

(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, and here.)

Is it true?: No, the video has been on the internet since 2023 and shows a Georgian influencer who now lives in France.

How do we know?: We carried out a reverse image search using screenshots of the video on Google Lens and Google Images.

• Google Lens led us to an older version of the video on Instagram, where it was shared on 17 August 2023.

The video has been on the internet since 2023.

(Source: Instagram/Altered by The Quint)

• We also came across more posts of people sharing it in 2023.

• Through Google's image search, we found that the video was shared by an influencer's verified Facebook page on 15 March 2025, with a caption in Georgian which identified herself as the person in the video.

We found the video on an influencer's verified Facebook page.

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• A closer look at the page showed us that she is a blogger living in Strasbourg, France, who also shares content on TikTok.

• Using a VPN, we accessed her TikTok account (as it is banned in India) and found that she had first shared the same video on 16 July 2023.

She had first shared the video in July 2023.

(Source: TikTok/Altered by The Quint)

• The account led us to her Instagram page, which said that her name is Tamta Sabelashvili and she works as a personal trainer in France.

• Across her accounts, her posts and interactions were in the Georgian language, indicating that she may be of Georgian origin.

Conclusion: An old video of a woman dancing in the rain is being falsely linked to the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict.

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