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”.



Oh misogyny doesn’t need Christianity to be able to thrive. I’ve worked in the Trades since 1980… and over the decades caught plenty of snide remarks, had my tools stolen and the quality of my work dismissed. Not a Chrsitian man in the lot… just easily threatened limp-dick assholes that thought the jobsite was their clubhouse with No Girls Allowed.