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”.
religion is just the excuse. It’s conservative men who are full of shit.
Can you define conservative? What are they trying to conserve? The old ways, traditions, right? What even is religion if not tradition? They are the same.
It makes no sense to try to absolve religion of any responsibility for this kind of shitty behaviour, just because there are some young people who are still in its thrall.