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”.
No, I mean after the US beat them in the war, would ordinary Japanese citizens have been better off if the US hadn’t helped the country rebuild?
Japan, of all countries, categorically doesn’t get to be lumped in with “intervention” given that they famously attacked the US, not the other way around.