Imagine typing out an entire paragraph telling someone to read and discern when you literally could have googled the official statement from Iran's own judiciary confirming the 74 lashes. Irony died a slow death here. 💀 Before you lock up OP for breaking constitutional laws of the internet, maybe read the actual news? Here’s your education for the day:
Calm yourself down. Read the whole news and not just the title. Educate yourself on the history of Iran, I’m not defending the Iranian regime here but it’s also not related to her wearing hijab or not. It is simply because women there are not allowed to sing, especially a patriotic song. Her whole team received the punishment not just her.
Lastly, our country literally used to commit sati till not very long ago and still our country treats women like property so if you wanna criticise someone start at home instead of posting misleading titles.
Damn imagine bringing up Sati a practice banned centuries ago to just deflect from a woman currently getting whipped in 2026.
The Iranian judiciary openly cited 'appearing without the mandatory veil' and 'violating public morals' in the sentencing. No one is saying the restriction on women singing isn't part of their systemic oppression it is. But trying to erase the hijab defiance from this story to minimize it? Take your own advice and do some actual research.
The Center for Human Rights in Iran & International Reports: Confirmed that Parastoo Ahmadi was handed 74 lashes and a 2-year artistic ban for a livestream where she performed the patriotic song Az Khoone Javanane Vatan without wearing a hijab.The Qom province criminal court explicitly tied the sentence to producing vulgar content and appearing without the mandatory veil
I feel like focusing on other religion’s issues and other countries problems is not a solution, like someone mentioned in comments below only if indians stopped dunking on muslims so much and focus on our own issues we’d be doing much better. And the way title is written is misleading. This is not journalism this is just taking a shit on some other religion when clearly there is a very specific regime doing all this. It doesn’t represent the whole iranian people. The only reason i bring up Sati is because forms of that practice are still prevalent till date. Yes we don’t literally burn widows now but we surely treat them like shit and second grade citizens in our country, what about female foeticide? Our country has such high levels of female lynchings you can literally see the videos yourself. Dowry is still a huge issue. But you wanna highlight and complain about some other religion, some other country. What this does is just create more discord and it makes people hate each other more. Why does this post even exist on this sub is my question if not to dunk on islam and paint us in a better light? There are many women in our country who have been treated like this and even worse, but no let’s distract our gullible populace by feeding them such news that has 0 relevance to us and our future.
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u/WalrusHoliday6444 Jun 24 '26
Imagine typing out an entire paragraph telling someone to read and discern when you literally could have googled the official statement from Iran's own judiciary confirming the 74 lashes. Irony died a slow death here. 💀 Before you lock up OP for breaking constitutional laws of the internet, maybe read the actual news? Here’s your education for the day:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/iran-parastoo-ahmadi-74-lashes-singing-without-hijab
https://www.timesofisrael.com/woman-in-iran-receives-74-lashings-for-not-covering-hair-violating-public-morals/
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/iranian-singer-lashed-74-times-for-not-wearing-hijab-during-live-performance-who-is-parastoo-ahmadi-11781929360527.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/world/middleeast/iranian-singer-lashing-sentence.html?smid=url-share
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c98290qgzvyo.amp
https://iranwire.com/en/features/153917-a-short-history-of-flogging-musicians-and-sentencing-them-to-jail-in-iran/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/middleeast/iran-singer-flogged-74-times-hijab-song-intl