Shervin Hajipour was arrested less than 48 hours after he had put his song on Instagram. By then, it had been heard 40m times. His jailers made him remove it but it was already beyond their control
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskNowadays a new chant is catching on. Shervin Hajipour’s song, “Baraye”, meaning “for”, is no more than a string of tweets. Inspired by the death of an “improperly veiled” 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of the religious police three weeks ago, each tweet gives a reason why people should rebel—“for dancing in the streets”, “for our fear when kissing”, “for my sister, for your sister, for our sisters”.
Mr Hajipour puts the blame for Iran’s ills squarely on the clerics. “For all their meaningless slogans,” he laments. “For the girl who wishes she’d been born a boy.” His lyrics chime with a society, long alienated from theocratic rule, that has become increasingly secular. Women sing it in the face of riot police who come to club them. Schoolgirls chant it in classrooms and write its lyrics on their whiteboards. Commuters play it on their car stereos in the morning rush hour and blare it out through the night from their housing estates after work. Iranian exiles sing it as they march through the streets of cities in Europe and elsewhere.
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