Iran blacks out Beckham billboards

Reports said the commercials were "too suggestive"

BBC - Five billboards in the city carrying a head and shoulders shot of the Real Madrid and England star advertising engine oil have been draped in black cloth.

Correspondents say David Beckham is the first Western celebrity to be used in an advertising campaign in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

It is not clear who ordered the billboards to be covered.

A spokesman for Tehran city council told the BBC it was not the council's decision.

Reuters quoted a source familiar with the advertising campaign as saying the commercials were deemed "too suggestive".