It’s funny, because there are plenty of Grammy winners in the US who would be thrilled to write an anti-US song and would happily write one for free. They wouldn’t see it as punishment for anything at all, and would celebrate completing such a song by attending a World Hijab Day event.
“Iranian singer presented with Grammy by Jill Biden for protest song against regime ordered to write anti-USA track,” by Alyssa Guzman, New York Post, March 2, 2024:
An Iranian Grammy winner was ordered to write an anti-US song as punishment for his award-winning track, which slammed the Islamic regime, a human rights group said.
Shervin Hajipour, 27, was ordered to craft a song about the “USA’s atrocities against humanity” for singing a song called “Baraye” about an activist who refused to wear a hijab, Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) announced Friday.
Hajipour’s song — which won a Grammy last that was given to him in absentia by First Lady Jill Biden — tells the tale of Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody for refusing to wear the mandatory female head covering. His song became the anthem of the nationwide protests, which later led to his arrest.
He was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for “inciting people to cause unrest against national security” and for “spreading propaganda against the [Iranian] regime” after he wrote the song.
The Grammy winner also has to summarize two books about women’s status in Islam and collect cases of human rights violations by US government over the past century as part of his punishment, the group said.
Hajipour is also prohibited from leaving Iran for two years, according to HRANA, and is “mandated to compile and share the achievements of the Islamic Revolution in culture, science, and art on his internet platform.”
Shervin Hajipour, 27, was ordered to write a song about the “USA’s atrocities against humanity,” according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency. He also has to summarize two books about women’s status in Islam and collect cases of human rights violations by US government over the past century….
Tony Rice says
Allah must really be proud of his lot in Iran. Cut them down to only 71 virgins.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Can’t he plagiarize any of the rap songs that are anti-US? Maybe just translate it, but keep the same tune & beats? Sounds like a relatively easy job, particularly if in Farsi, like in English, the lines don’t have to rhyme
FYI says
Iran is a shite country unless you are sh’ite.
Iran is a shite country BECAUSE it is shi’te.
Possibly Sunni Joke {anonymous}
yo Iran is sh’ite
and that’s a fact
cos’ there’s no jokes
and no fun
{khomeini said!}
So Run if you can
Word up
DJ Fun-da-Mental
{OK that’s a bogus rap..like the koran.But at least it doesn’t rhyme ..which is a shyme}
martin walden says
I’m impressed!