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".

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[–] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I was really rooting for the New Iran movement. Tankies called me a fucking zionist for it.

Now those hopes are shattered. Fuck trump, and fuck netanyahu.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago* (1 child)

    The New Iran movement was literally a western op, Trump himself admitted they armed them. There is no case where Iran has an internal struggle and the US doesn't exploit that opportunity to steal their resources and immiserate it's people.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago

    The New Iran movement was going on for a lot longer than the student protests last year that people like you were trying so hard to dismiss as western imperialism.

    The New Iran movement has been going on at least since Mahsa Amini was beaten to death in custody for not wearing a hijab "properly." For you to dismiss that as a western op is as chauvinistic as it is insulting. As if the Iranian people have no agency, and need a brutal regime to protect them from the Evil West™'s meddling?

    Of course Israel and the US would try to co-opt such a movement, but that doesn't mean the movement itself was inauthentic. And trump tries to take credit for everything, so I can't believe you're actually attempting to cite his facial rectum as a credible source.

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