Her miraculous birth brought brief hope to her surviving family. “You are my soul, my heart,” Sabreen's grandmother told her, the day after she was born. “You are my beloved one.”
Toomaj Salehi in his songs supported months of protests in Iran in 2022 sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly wearing an “improper” hijab.
Anastasia Ivleeva sparked an explosion of public indignation in the increasingly traditionalist country when she hosted a party in December encouraging guests to wear almost nothing.