Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti posts picture without wearing headscarf in support of protests | World News
A popular Iranian actress posted a photo of herself on Instagram without a hijab to show support for the nationwide anti-government protests.
Taraneh Alidoosti, known for her role in the 2016 Oscar-winning film Salesman, holds up a sign in the photo that reads “Women, Life, Freedom” in Kurdish – a popular slogan in the country. the riots.
This move marks another sign that the protest movement in Iran is receiving support from all walks of life.
Nationwide protests have been taking place after the death of 22 years old Mahsa Amini was detained by police in September, after being detained for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code.
Ms Alidoosti, who is not a Kurd, wrote a poem accompanying the photo on Instagram.
“Your final absence, the exodus of the singing birds, is not the end of this rebellion,” she wrote.
The 38-year-old reformed artist has posted several posts on Instagram condemning the establishment of the cult in the past.
At least five Iranian actresses have shared pictures of themselves online without the mandatory headscarf in solidarity with the women protesting across the country.
The city of Zahedan, located in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan provinces, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Gulf of Oman, has seen the bloodiest violence to date in weeks of protests.
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Iranian officials, who have blamed Amini’s death on pre-existing medical problems, say the unrest has been fueled by foreign enemies, including the US, and accuse armed separatists perpetrated the violence.
Nation has a theocratic government, which means that its systems of governance are based on religious laws and precepts.
The protests have become the biggest threat to the Iranian government since the 2009 Green Movement protests. International pressure is also being applied on the government, over its treatment of those Protesters.
The protests have grown from a focus on women’s rights and the state-required hijab, to calls to oust the Shiite clerics who have ruled Iran since the Islamic Revolution. in 1979.
