Members of an all-women music group, Hanareh, were not granted license to perform in concert.
Baran Rezaii who sings with this group said, “I have applied to receive license for a women’s concert a number of times in Rasht, Isfahan, Karaj, Kermanshah, Yazd, Saqqez, and Shiraz, but I did not receive such a permission on any of these occasions.”
Ms. Rezaii added, “Unfortunately, we have not experienced any positive approach on the part of the government with regards to women’s music… We perform the poems of (great Iranian poets) Hafez and Molana on traditional Iranian music. We offer works which promote our land’s rich culture and we do expect that the government would observe our rights.” (The state-run ILNA news agency – July 17, 2017)