Parastoo Ahmadi was convicted of "offending public decency" after singing while wearing a sleeveless dress during a livestreamed concert.

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”.

  • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That is no more true now than it was then.

    Afghanistan was a brutal monarchy before a popular revolution. The PDPA was democratic communist government. That’s when the West started arming Islamist, and why the Soviet Union invaded. They were objectively more democratic than a Monarchy or Islamist rule.

    Now today, America arms over 80% of all dictatorships, including THE WORST FOR WOMENS RIGHTS.

    Stop trying to paint imperialism and war as feminist. You already have shown you don’t understand history or the modern day, maybe you don’t know what’s best for women on the other side of the world either.

    It was about oil then, it’s about oil now, and has fuck all to do with women.

    • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip
      11·
      2 days ago

      Oil production in Afghanistan is very, very low. You’ll have to look into the history of the Cold War to understand why the US supported the Mujahedeen. Neither they nor Pakistan (who, as said were the main supporters) seem to have been interested in Afghani oil.

      You seem to want to make this into some USA = BAD argument while I’m mere pointing out that there was always a huge islamic antifeminist undercurrent. There’s so many violently mysoginist men that they were able to throw out both the communists and the US, lol

      Also, how do you see the PDPA as a democratic government? They just took power in a coup

      • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
        12·
        2 days ago

        Well, the D in their name for one. How do you create a democracy in a dictatorships without a “coup”, as you put it? Bro. I was taught from a young age that the Soviet occupation was to secure access to the Middle East oil fields. That’s true for them and not our occupation?

        They call it the graveyard of empires for a reason. It’s never not been strategic.

        You don’t make much sense with this top down backwards justification.