The girls defied a ban on public dancing and strict public dress codes mandating the wearing of headscarves
Iranian police are hunting for a group of girls who launched a viral Selena Gomez dance trend.
A video was posted online last week showing five young Iranian women performing a dance routine to the Afropop hit Calm Down by Rema and Selena Gomez.
The women danced without headscarves in front of tower blocks in Shahrak Ekbatan, a west Tehran housing development that has been a flashpoint of anti-government protests.
I wonder if @heisrema knows that his song #CalmDown is the backdrop of an incredibly courageous act of defiance by young Iranian women?
It started when 5 girls danced to his music in @shahrak_ekbatan– risking persecution by a regime that has murdered women for simply protesting. pic.twitter.com/V9zIbaF8og
— Nahayat Tizhoosh (@NahayatT) March 12, 2023
