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”.
What? No one is expressing sympathy for the government, they’re expressing sympathy at the senseless loss of life. Those girls lives mattered regardless of what their government wants to force them to believe. I understand being horrified by what they are doing over there, but I really don’t think this comment is getting a point across. Those are two unrelated events that just happened in the same part of the world. We have decades of evidence to suggest that not bombing or doing regime change to countries actually improves living conditions there, so really him bombing likely is setting things back even further.
Exactly I express sympathy for the people of Iran, whether their suffering is at the hands of the US or their government.