In the middle of a war, the Islamic Republic still finds time to flog this young women for music.
Anita Papist, a young Iranian singer, has been sentenced to 74 lashes.
Her crime? Singing and uploading her video on Instagram.
The regime confiscated her passport. Blocked her… pic.twitter.com/tIwCz3OLAU
— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) July 18, 2026
The Iranian government continues to inflict savage punishments on female singers, both for the content of their songs and for their daring to sing without wearing the hijab. More on their continuing calvary can be found here: “Iranian singer Anita Papist sentenced to 74 lashes for ‘offending public decency’ by singing,” by Danielle Greyman-Kennard, Jerusalem Post, July 19, 2026:
Tehran-based singer Anita Papist was sentenced to 74 lashes for “offending public decency” by Branch 1088 of the Second Criminal Court at Tehran’s Ershad Judicial Complex, the musician and Iran rights groups announced over the weekend.
Papist, who posts videos of herself online singing in English and Persian without a head covering, confirmed that her passport was confiscated and her mobile phone blocked, punishments that the Iranian legal advocacy group Dadbaan said were “imposed solely for posting her artwork on social media.”
Dadbaan noted that singing and producing music are not themselves a crime, and said the sentence against Papist was “in conflict with Iran’s international obligations in the field of freedom of expression, freedom of cultural activities, and the prohibition of cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment.”
We don’t know what she was singing about, but presumably it contained pre-Islamic and non-Islamic themes that would madden the religious police. And worse still, she was not wearing a hijab.
In recent months, the group said, Iran has cracked down significantly on female singers, even illegally taking control of artists’ personal social media accounts and publishing legal messages without their consent.
Ever since the widespread protests against the government in January, when members of the Basij militia, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the state police shot down 40,000 protesters, the regime has cracked down on the slightest sign of disobedience to its strictures. Female singers have been a special target, especially if they are not wearing hijabs and thus defying the state.
Papist, thanking her fans for being her voice, reshared an image made by one of her followers with tape over her mouth and the caption “every woman who creates with her art and deserves respect. Let’s stand with artists, not against them. No injustice.”
Papist, insisting on her Instagram story that she was uninterested in claiming asylum abroad, said she made her sentence public in support of Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi. Ahmadi and eight members of her production and music team were ordered last month to be lashed 74 times by the Qom Provincial Criminal Court over allegations she offended “public decency through the production and publication of obscene and immoral content on cyberspace platforms.”
Papist made known on Instagram that she had made her own punishment public in order to express solidarity with another singer, Parastoo Ahmadi, who along with eight members of her production and music team had been previously sentenced to 74 lashes, the same sentence as that inflicted on Papist.
Papist’s song contained not Islamic but “nationalist” content, presumably celebrating the pre-Islamic and non-Islamic aspects of Iranian life and history.
The harder the regime’s crackdown, the greater the rage that 85% of the Iranian public that wants the regime to end feels. Its enforcers can flog all they want — 74 lashes of the whip can do serious, even permanent damage to the spine — but it’s clear from Papist’s support posted on Telegram for Ahmadi, another singer whose content was judged “obscene” and whose hair was, like Papist’s, not held in place by a hijab, that she remains defiant. The girls of Iran are no longer frightened of the supreme leader and his savage retinue in Tehran.
The regime is running out of ballistic missiles and drones, thanks in part to Trump’s renewal of hostilities which has led Tehran to strike at all of its Arab neighbors, using up many of those drones and missiles. And the American military is now bombing Iran’s ballistic missile plants and drone factories. The IDF has said it is ready — even, one suspects, eager — to launch massive attacks on Iran if any Israeli sites are damaged or soldiers are harmed. The turbaned troglodytes in Tehran are now running on sermons and soda water.
Bob Biermann says
The 15% who are literally demon possessed are holding the other 85% hostage.
Stacy says
Just like the gaystapo in America
gravenimage says
Gay people are not flogging non-homosexuals in the US.
Walter Sieruk says
The people of Iran, can’t be a happy people. The reason for this is that they exist in in a nation of oppressive Islamic tyranny because of those despots who a terrible power in Iran.
The other reason that the Iranian people aren’t happy is because Related to that is that there is no room for singing ,festive activities , music, dancing, fun or humor in Islam.
For example, Ayatollah Khomeini had declared “The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There can be no…joy in whatever is serious.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 348.
Walter Sieruk says
This is a reflection of what is found in the Bible. Which reads “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.” Provides 15:15. [N.I.V.]
Stacy says
Provides?
Did you mean Proverbs?
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast
You used false association why?
Walter Sieruk says
Well ,that “mullah regime” of Iran is very oppressive with its man many violations of basic freedom and natural human rights. Therefore, Proverbs 15:15 does apply to that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
Wellington says
Every Muslim-majority nation is to a greater or lesser extent an enemy of liberty, but Iran takes it again and again to the furthest extent respecting this antipathy to liberty. Why?
And why is Iran the only damn nation on Earth that is only too ready to experience obliteration if only it can obliterate others. Why?
Iran since 1979 has been the only Muslim nation that engages in nauseating, regular invectives against America and Israel, even to the extent of becoming a parody of itself. Why?
The Iranian regime is absolutely the worst nation on the planet, no contest, respecting both the willingness to mass slaughter its own people as well as doing it. Why?
How did it come about that Iran is unlike any other nation on Earth, even other terrible nations like North Korea, China, Cuba and Russia regarding the regular creation of geopolitical instability? Yes, why?
I submit, not meant in a twisted Islamic way, that the answer to these questions goes to the heart of what makes up the Persian people, a people whom I wish well but whom I also consider the single most pathetic people in all the world. Yes, the rot in Persia is even deeper than just this Iranian regime. If one misses this, I contend they miss a lot.
Westman says
Iran made an educational leap forward under the Shah and for some reason, under the Ayatollahs, it was employed for the production of evil and the suppression of happiness. There is an evil nature, incarnate in the IRGC, which gladly competes with the Mullahs to shower misery on the citizens.
somehistory says
If the poor woman was seen by the ghouls as non-straight, they’d lash her while she hung from a crane.
She may not survive the lashing; and has no way to let anyone know if she does. The ghouls will gurgle with evil glee if she succumbs.
There is no freedom in iran, except for the ghouls to express their demonic behavior.
JeffS says
That song is the same tune as the old Israeli song Bashana Haba’ah, about peace.
James Lincoln says
This is tragic.
Tehran-based singer Anita Papist is very talented and put together a wonderful video.
For that, she gets 74 lashes from what’s left of the jihadi IRGC leaders.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This regime, aside from being evil, is pretty retarded. Most regimes in their predicament would try and ease up on their brutal suppression at home while they were fighting a war. Even assuming that they couldn’t let go of the pretext for the war, whether it’s building missiles and nukes in the case of the islamic republic, or continuing attacks on civilian targets in Kyiv in case of Putin
Even yesterday, in Isfahan, a bunch of kids whose only crime was being out during the January 8-9th protests, were sentenced to be executed. It’s not known whether they ultimately were or not
The bombing campaign has now reached Tehran. The US bombers, since they’re now hitting infrastructure like roads & bridges, should also take out all their “police stations” and other institutions like their courthouses and arms depots, crushing IRGC/Basij elements everywhere, so that the Iranian people can arise sooner rather than later
Mo says
She has a pretty voice. Oh, this breaks my heart. I’m an amateur singer. I love music. I can’t imagine such a thing.
gravenimage says
In Iran, a Singer Gets 74 Lashes for… Singing
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Grimly, this is orthodox Islam. Islam says that molten lead will be poured in the ears of anyone who listens to a songstress.
I do not speak Farsi–I presume this song is in Farsi–but she has *a beautiful voice*. Of course the bloody Mullahs want to silence her.