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”.
It takes a certain kind of genius who can take a pariah state on the verge of collapse and turn it into a kind of underdog while destroying the world economy.
The place is a police state and IRG were and are the real power. They were still there and they took control. When attacked, most people rally around the the flag so there was a lot of inertia too.
With their supreme leader dead, why didn’t the moderates in that country arm up and take control?
Most of them were killed in December and January trying to do just that. I’ve seen estimates as high as 50,000, but most are reporting 30,000-36,000.
The exact numbers are impossible to verify because Iran shut down the entire country’s internet to cover it up.
Because it was never the simple