Parastoo Ahmadi sang while wearing a sleeveless dress during a concert livestreamed on her YouTube channel in December 2024. Iran’s laws ban public performances by women and require them to wear headscarves and modest clothing.
Iran’s judiciary launched proceedings against the 29-year-old after the video went viral, gaining millions of views, saying the performance was “in violation of the country’s legal and cultural regulations”.
Uh… source? Something tells me that’s not, in fact, what they’re teaching in Iranian schools. That aside I don’t think I’ve seen Iran ask for anyone’s sympathy—which makes sense, the moral bankruptcy of most of the people in a position to provide that sympathy (aka Western politicians and elites) is very clear in Iranian history. When they were making those AI music videos they were attacking Trump rather than asking for sympathy per se.