In the diaspora, the anthem has taken on a life of its own - remixed, covered and sung at protests from Los Angeles to Europe. In Karaj, near Tehran, protesters played the song and chanted “Death to the dictator!” and “Woman, life, freedom!” In an Iranian classroom, students wrote the lyrics to “Baraye” on the wall.Ī popular video circulating online shows Iranian high school students standing without hijab, their backs facing the camera as they hold hands in front of a whiteboard and sing the song. A receptionist at an English school, she said that schoolgirls are running an anti-hijab campaign, using the song as a driving force behind their movement. People around her - teachers, mothers, young girls - play the song constantly. Like others, she gave only her first name, Armita, for fear of retaliation by the government. “All around me, people were listening to it feeling misery and pity.” “I got goosebumps,” said a 26-year-old woman in Tehran, describing her experience of hearing the song.
It blasts from inside apartments and from cars driving past women walking without hijab in quiet defiance. Videos posted online show young school girls dancing in a circle and singing the anthem in protest. In this clip, girl high school students-in a classroom w/out their forced-hijab-sing what has come to be the anthem of #IranProtests: "Baraye." ("For.") by Shervin Hajipour (who has been arrested).
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