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”.



Why would anyone not let Nazis do whatever they want? Don’t want to be a Nazi, do we?
The paradox of tolerance strikes again.
Tell me you don’t know what the tolerance paradox is without telling me you don’t know what the tolerance paradox is.