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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    If Western regimes were not committing a full-scale genocide against women and children indiscriminately, you might have had a moral ground to stand on.

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      Further, in every case of Western intervention, rights devolved, and it was just another resource grab.

      The Zionists are just an extension of the US businessmen government. It will be most interesting to watch the end match between the proxy government and the United States businessmen government.