In this poetic and moving reflection, actor, musician and activist Golshifteh Farahani honors those who have fought for “Woman, Life, Freedom” following Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of Iran’s religious morality police. Calling upon our shared humanity, she urges everyone to take a stand against violence inflicted on innocent people around the world.
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Shaboor
May 5, 2023 at 2:20 pm
The west made Iran this way. You think anything better is gonna come from international intervention? It will be the next iraq. Dont wish for that. Keep working in the system to create change
Flesz
May 5, 2023 at 2:31 pm
Women are screwed in Iran unfortunately
Persian guy
May 5, 2023 at 2:50 pm
Theyre better off in Iran than in the west
The Honest Dude
May 5, 2023 at 3:07 pm
Even though all these things said in this video are lies,
At least in iran women exist,
In west you cannot even define the word women 😂
Abas Malekiii
May 5, 2023 at 2:42 pm
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡💩
Ali babarahaei
May 5, 2023 at 3:08 pm
Perfect 👌
Hassan
May 5, 2023 at 3:19 pm
down with islamic republic
viva women_life_freedom
Nyarlethotep The Articifer
May 5, 2023 at 3:20 pm
the best way to save humanity is to send as much as we can from our nuclear arsenals to the moon and mars as energy sources for further colonization. translating weapons into wells. that way we can both get off this rock and have 100+ years of energy to get us through the transition
M
May 5, 2023 at 6:32 pm
Would it help Iranian women? Would it help Syrian women? Would it help Afghan women?
The Golden Squirrel
May 5, 2023 at 6:49 pm
The best way is to review your own western countries’ policies in the middle east, and stop them pretending that they help to save eastern people from the dictatorships, they’re just intervening for more destruction and resources stealth instead of removing the dictators. ⛔
New Beginning
May 5, 2023 at 3:45 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ali danger
May 5, 2023 at 4:01 pm
🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mr Malmir
May 5, 2023 at 4:20 pm
Means western regimes must mind tehir business otherwise you expect Iran to export Sharia law to your countries like you try so hard to export democracy to Iran.
Mr Malmir
May 5, 2023 at 4:22 pm
You can’t export democracy to Iran,but we can export Sharia law to your countries so don’t turn your country into a tatget for us .
mansour ab
May 5, 2023 at 5:01 pm
😂I am Golshifteh Farahani. I will do anything for money.
Ophad
May 5, 2023 at 6:50 pm
You’re an IRGC cyber agent you do everything for money not her she’s a Hollywood star she’s doesn’t sell her land to China unlike you
maryann Hope
May 5, 2023 at 5:16 pm
💔💜🙏🏼🕯
Neil C
May 5, 2023 at 5:19 pm
People of Iran needs same amounts of platform as the Ukraine war.
I have the greatest amount of respect for the people who are rising up to the Dictatorship than one can have. I pray one day they break the sackle.
The Golden Squirrel
May 5, 2023 at 6:41 pm
I completely agree with you, but those people you respect should be also in the west, western people should help other people in other parts of the world to stand against the policies of the western countries so that if they intervene politically, they should help in removing those dictatorships, and not preserving them and just nagging on media and steal oil. I respectfully invite you to read my comment, not just this reply to you. ⛔
Rasheed Infinit
May 5, 2023 at 5:33 pm
There’s no such thing as freedom.
Dimaz
May 5, 2023 at 5:36 pm
wow.. it seems like there’s plenty of folks here that support this kind of suppression of freedom, in this day and age.. unbelievable 😅
The Golden Squirrel
May 5, 2023 at 6:34 pm
You should also know the right side which decides what the definition of freedom is. The idea is that it’s not the west which decides what the freedom is. Also, most importantly, the west is the very first supporter of freedom suppression. If you ask why and how, you should know that the west itself is trying hard to maintain such regimes in Iran and other similar countries. Try to flick up the historical influence of the west in that part of the world for the last 5 decades at least, and you’ll definitely come to know what’s going on. ⛔
Ophad
May 5, 2023 at 6:55 pm
They are IRGC cyber agents attacking whoever speak about oppression in Iran calling them CIA 😅meanwhile they themselves sell cheap oil to CIA via black market to bribe and avoid a war with US 😅😢 they also bribe China and Russia This is what they do
Dhananjay Sejwal
May 5, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Should have thought when u were eradicating persians and changing their faith. Muslims do tread a darker path than other religions.
محتوى هادف Purposeful content
May 5, 2023 at 6:18 pm
مرحبا بكم جميعا على فناني
M
May 5, 2023 at 6:39 pm
The Western countries were unsuccessful in stopping Hitler prior to World War II. I hope that they will take action to prevent Iran from becoming a similar threat before it’s too late.
Shayesteh Oveisi
May 5, 2023 at 6:52 pm
👌👌
lonelynightlights
May 5, 2023 at 6:53 pm
Kurdistan is a province of Iran[Persia]. So, basically, all the people she mentioned ARE IRANIAN[PERSIAN]. Mahsa[Jina] Amini was Iranian.
Persian guy
May 5, 2023 at 9:36 pm
Its just mahsa amini, no jina mina
Ashestates
May 5, 2023 at 7:12 pm
If you want to help Iranians please stop the sanctions that prevent Epidermolysis bullosa patients which are mostly kids from getting their medicine.
If you truly care about freedom, mind what’s happening in France and the brutality of the French police.
The people of iran have been living together side by side for thousands of years, they have overcome many hardships, this too shall pass.
Didier
May 6, 2023 at 3:22 am
Medicines and food have never been the subject of international sanctions, including USA
You cannot compare the freedom of France and Iran and this is ridiculous. No one was killed in the protests in France.
and Iranian people have not passed thousands of years with just one government
The Honest Dude
May 6, 2023 at 8:40 am
@Didier it has been, why do you lie ?
Iran buy most of its foreign medicine from black market or tunnel it through neighbouring countries through third parties because it cannot be sold to iranians directly
The buttrfly kids literally die everyday because iran cannot directly buy their required medical papers
I dislike people like you who repeat literal lies in comment sections
I have worked in the healthcare industry in iran and there is 100% a sanction on medicine and equipment.
حسين الكربلائي
May 5, 2023 at 7:18 pm
Iraq will remain proud, no matter how hungry dogs bark at despicable, bitchy Iran
Persian guy
May 5, 2023 at 9:40 pm
Bro nones even talking about you 😂
Pip Gargery
May 5, 2023 at 8:28 pm
As someone who likes humanity and is against cruelty I also want Iranians to protest against Khamanei and Soleimani for the systematic and ongoing genocide of Syrians, Turks, Iraqis, Kashmiris, Palestinians and Muslims of other countries. We all need to come together for a bigger solution. Just fighting for your freedom to dress the way you like alone is nothing. You need freedom and complete freedom for these evil and ignorant people ruling your country.
Persian guy
May 5, 2023 at 9:35 pm
What are you on about?
The Honest Dude
May 6, 2023 at 8:36 am
Are you mentally challenged bro ?
Member of the Tribe
May 5, 2023 at 8:45 pm
Heinously misleading. Yet unsurprising…Since TED has been owned by the greed-psychotic deepstate / wallstreet petrodollar cabal for a while now after all.
As an American citizen from birth I will still admit that it is the petrodollar’s sanctions, coups and neo-colonization that exacerbates scarcity based behaviors such as racism, religism, sexism, classism. Islam/Iran would change evermore into a pro-social force if it weren’t for the scarcity imposed on the mid east via petrodollar psyops, funding of known terrorist groups for the sake of coups, and hegemony funded propaganda.
The petrodollar elite are schizophrenically afraid of pro social movements such as socialism, etc. They thus slaughter it in its cradle wherever they find it ~ Iraq, Iran, Libya, Afghan, Syria, South America, South Africa and near all of the mid / east.
I assure you, that if you are pro-petrodollar in these debates that you have been deceived by your mother empire’s milk. Humanity evolved to serve tribe not to seek truth. This has been exploited by American elite to shape their citizenry into imperial zombies/slaves.
We must wake up to greedy / dominator hierarchies of all sort. Yes Islam can be that, but it is many lightyears less violent than the US’ dominator/hoarder hegemony.
Let us wake up to that we are one clade, one human family, unified by the universally emanate “golden rule” of every religion & spirituality.
ruski rjb
May 5, 2023 at 9:17 pm
Whatever is happening in the name of free speech is destroying Muslim world. Mind it my brother’s it’s early. come to right path until it’s too late. West is doing everything to degrade human society in every means.
Religion Hell
May 5, 2023 at 10:39 pm
You’re working to accumulate $1 million and then after you work to accumulate $1 million you go spend it at Tiffany’s so where do you think the family of Tiffany’s is because they’re selling you something for $1 million and you know how long it takes to accumulate $1 million so the Tiffany family is where I am 100% positive the Tiffany family is so far removed from the planet earth that they’re willing to sell you something for $1 million that will never serve your purpose
DANGER-MOUSE 313
May 5, 2023 at 11:50 pm
CIA PROPAGANDA FROM A SECOND GRADE ACTRESS
谢世峰
May 6, 2023 at 1:01 am
都是美丽国霍霍的牺牲品。自由？没有战争就是自由！！！
Small G
May 6, 2023 at 2:51 am
nice acting LULW
علي
May 6, 2023 at 3:22 am
مرگ بر منافقى خلق
Олег Газин
May 6, 2023 at 3:40 am
Расскажите лучше как США вторгалось в страны и убивало тысячи не винных людей….
Что за двойные стандарты ТЕД?
Aida Amini
May 6, 2023 at 6:18 am
🤍🕊
Iranian Warrior 🇮🇷
May 6, 2023 at 7:04 am
Farhani not Muslim.
CinemaGeek
May 7, 2023 at 1:59 pm
So??
CrudeleSpina
May 6, 2023 at 8:37 am
Terrible things are happening all over the world. Iran is not exeptional.
I feel you paint the devil blacker than he is.
The Honest Dude
May 7, 2023 at 9:03 am
She is just acting, about 90% of everything she is saying is baseless and lies in face of truth
parham jahanmard
May 6, 2023 at 9:07 am
Liberty for iran
Traders' hangout
May 8, 2023 at 6:04 pm
Marg bar to every single iranian man, woman and child
xerxessonofdarius
May 6, 2023 at 10:42 am
کس ننه جنده ات خودشیفته جنده، تو برو باز کستو بنداز بیرون لاشی
Ligia Sommers
May 6, 2023 at 11:34 am
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Moe Myint Aung
May 6, 2023 at 1:13 pm
We are fighting for our freedom and respect
BANEEN
May 6, 2023 at 2:36 pm
I wonder what is the thing that this women want , the government says thet the woman have to wear hijab because Iran is a Muslim country they want to be freedom from hijab?
Which is the best thing the woman wear it ? They doesn’t want it this is the truth they want to make the country look like the western countries.
The Honest Dude
May 7, 2023 at 9:02 am
As an iranian im telling you, she is a actress who got famous for stripping naked
And all the cases she talked about is bs
None of it has any proof
Its the type of things they tell westerners or stupid people to make them emotional to kll other people
MeMyself
May 6, 2023 at 2:53 pm
thanks for supporting us 🤍
Alex
May 6, 2023 at 3:38 pm
I support Iranians who want to end cruelty and inhumanity. Sadly there is a large swath of Iranians in Iran who support this cruelty and “Marg Agahi” (genocide for the sake of death awareness) simply because they were told that this is Islam! The concept of “Velay-e-Faqih” makes the Iranian leader equivalent to God! Iranians need to understand that this concept is only unique to Iran and no other Muslim country or community believes or supports this concept of totalitarianism. This is categorically an Anti-Islamic philosophy. You can consult any Shia or Sunni cleric on this matter.
Patrick Spreng
May 6, 2023 at 5:21 pm
The world would be a much safer and more wonderful place if all religions were totally eliminated. They are all fictions.
VanquisheR
May 7, 2023 at 1:36 am
western propaganda at work
Salimu Kungulilo
May 7, 2023 at 2:06 am
This is not fair
Salimu Kungulilo
May 7, 2023 at 2:11 am
This is stupid this is not fair TED you killed many people in the world , This is end you will fail by the Power Allah
MrSaul76_54
May 7, 2023 at 12:52 pm
Sad how they can’t make videos years long to show all the victims
yeganeh behdin
May 7, 2023 at 7:34 am
Cruelty never exists forever and one day, the people of Iran will be free again…
Woman, Life, Freedom
Slime Ugo
May 7, 2023 at 8:20 am
Happy birthday
Slime Ugo
May 7, 2023 at 8:19 am
Happy birthday to me
milon natural sinary in bangladesh
May 7, 2023 at 9:57 am
wow great video i want to help you
mahdi seyed
May 7, 2023 at 11:24 am
Lair, Most of them were killed by the infiltrator terrorists of the Pejak and Komoleh(on the basis of the head’s speech of Komoleh) why you don’t say anything about black people that is killed by USA police or about the French protests, why the french artists and other west artists even don’t publish one post on Instagram, YouTube and Facebook against french police or inflation and economic situation but if you see a wrong action by an officer of Iran, react quickly and cry in west media.if you are right so react to The way French police treat with French protesters but you don’t because you know how they treat if you behave in against of west values(the western name of dictatorial system)
Clarence Dair IV
May 7, 2023 at 1:59 pm
Heather
Clarence Dair IV
May 7, 2023 at 2:00 pm
Counselor Heather
Chris Presley
May 7, 2023 at 3:16 pm
It bothers me that they have taken off The Dukes Of Hazzard
tas
May 7, 2023 at 8:50 pm
All religions suck, including Islam. Sorry not sorry.
Read With Me, real human voice!
May 9, 2023 at 12:40 am
An entire nation of 80 million people is being held hostage by a cruel regime. Please spread more and more awareness on this issue we are trying the best that we can to get freedom, to get human rights. And please speak of Iran every chance you get.
I wish this speech didn’t sound like poetry.
wudlue H
May 9, 2023 at 12:53 am
damn that girl
That girl is a trash person
mahdi naderi
May 9, 2023 at 3:07 am
I am an Iranian
I will never leave my country like Golshifteh
Until 40 years ago, my country always saw hand to hand between other countries, and the military advisors of arrogant countries walked in the streets of my country and abused and insulted my parents
98% of the people of that time united and expelled the foreigners from the country
We will not allow them to turn our country into a ruin and loot our resources and soil
sajad karami
May 9, 2023 at 6:01 am
Woman life freedom
sajad karami
May 9, 2023 at 6:01 am
For freedom
eli gh
May 9, 2023 at 5:34 pm
You’re one of our heroes outside of Iran