Coldplay for Iran

As a tribute to the young Iranian women fighting for their rights in Iran, the inimitable Coldplay performed Shervin Hajipour's viral song "Baraye"
Also the beautiful Golshifteh Farahani has been part of the team that night.
Baraye means For...
For a dance in the alley ;
For breaking the taboo of kissing in public;
For my sister, your sister, our sisters;
For a change in the minds of the fanatics;
For the father’s shame for empty pockets;
For the longing for an ordinary life;
For the dreams of the dumpster kids;
For this command economy;
For this polluted air;
For the dying Tehran’s landmark(Valiasr) trees;
For the Persian cheetah(Pirouz) about to go extinct;
For the unjustly banned street dogs,
For the non-stop tears;
For the loss of the downed passengers;
For the faces that smile no more;
For the students, for the future;
For this forced road to paradise;
For the national elite imprisoned;
For the Afghan refugee kids;
For this list that goes on and on;
For these meaningless hostile chants;
For houses, collapsing like card ones
For feeling peace of mind;
For the rise of sun after long-lasting nights;
For the tranquilizers and insomnia;
For the man, the homeland, the prosperity;
For the girl who wished she was a boy;
For the woman, the life, the freedom;
For freedom;
For freedom;
Fore freedom.

[@malekghaderi3767]

من ازحمایت خانم گلشیفته از اعتراضات مردم ایران سپاسگزارم و سپاسی ویژه به عنوان یک بلوچ در حمایت از مردم بلوچ با پوشیدن پیراهن بلوچی از ایشان دارم. ایام همواره به کامتان باد.

[@sana5716]

بلوچستان جزء ایران هست🙂❤

[@hritiful]

And this is one of the many reasons we love COLDPLAY. I watched it live in the cinema and cried my heart out. Love and energy to Iran from India. ❤‍🩹

[@shiii8481]

Cinema??

[@Biowolfi]

This is why I grow up with Coldplay Musics

[@seyedhojatnasiri8907]

Thanks to Cold play & Golshifteh . Amazing performance Barayeh Azadi . Women , life, freedom

[@royadaee]

As a person who lives in Iran and felt all of the things Shervin sang with my all...this made me cry so hard :)

[@martinjacob7163]

don' t give Up ... DON'T !! You have so so much support from all over OUR planet !!! Good luck, praying for you ...

[@eejj9811]

Viva Iran, Persians and Persian women in particular and down with dictators in whatever cover they come in.

[@kasramaslub4462]

گلشیفته گل سرسبد و صدای خاموش هنر مندان گلشیفت عزیز شنیدم به پهلوی جسارت کردی راهت را از ما نسل امروزیها جدا نکن تفکر پدر شما دورانش سپری شده دوستت دارم

[@stadtneurose3826]

This song became so important for the iranians. It speaks out of their souls and what they felt the last 40 years. He got arrested after he published the song and is only alive because he had to distance himself from the the song. This song needs to get heard worldwide and coldplay giving him their range is amazing. He can't sing that song anymore but the people in iran still do and so should the rest of the world.

[@HaybaleMelon]

I was so close to crying with this, I hope Iran gets their freedom ❤️

[@liubovliubinska]

I balled my eyes out! Respect for being able to keep those tears in. ❤️ #women_life_freedom

[@martinjacob7163]

let us all hope

[@periarjimendi8021]

@@liubovliubinska چ

[@mambocci19371975]

Like Syria,, Iraq, Somalia and many others??!! Please try to be wise!

[@mayurakshidey7787]

@@mambocci19371975 no like all the free democratic nations in the world. Where women are not killed by the regime. Please try to be wise.

[@movenglish]

Thank you, Coldplay. -From an Iranian

[@nathalieburli4383]

Love and energy from Switzerland ♥️🖤♥️🖤Women Life Freedom ♥️ We ♥️ you Iran ♥️♥️♥️

[@freedom9689]

🕊️🌿🌿🙏🌿🌿🕊️

[@shiii8481]

@@freedom9689 are u ok?

[@freedom9689]

@@shiii8481 thank you sister I am ok 🙏❤️

[@Desi_Des]

Azadee I hope the Iranian people win their FREEDOM. I absoultely love this song and the singer.

[@willnash7907]

Iran can be free! Iran must be free! Iran will be free!

[@royaazar857]

Thank you for broadcasting the protests in Iran! We the people of Iran have been fighting for democracy and freedom! We need help from you to be our voice they have brutally abused our children and our families for 43 years . We need you to show the world that we are fighting against this horrible tyranny . Please help by broadcasting! Thank you

[@sku32956]

You can feel the power in that song ,it deeply moved me .

[@legrosciboire]

I am crying and praying for you people of Iran

[@rezanassib7126]

Coldplay making a difference. Keep it up mates!!

[@MaraOvando]

Por un mundo más Justo y libre. Sending love to Iran 🤍

[@user-on1yn5sf2n]

گلشیفته عزیز عالی بود ❤❤❤ به ناوی ژن ژیان ئازادی سرکوتن یاسرکوتن

[@Lovelife-lw7fy]

There are so many versions of this song in many languages , there are dances , etc all over the world with this song. Iranians are still dying but they’re not giving up . Let’s not forget them

[@Fateme.rezalu]

IRAN won't forget this♡

[@arashs2725]

This brought me to tears. I hope one day, my country will be free.

[@fredmac1000]

Wonderful Gesture and Cooperation,,👏👏👏🌷🌷🌷❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🌷🙏🙏

[@naslavaie348]

We appreciate you... thanks very much for your support! One People... One Earth...

[@Desi_Des]

I always want to cry when I hear this beautiful song. I understand Farsi so know the meaning of this song. I support all the women and people of Iran who are fighting for “Freedom” and hope that they gain their freedom. 🙏🏻❤️❤️ Coldplay did a beautiful job as well as the singer….she’s gorgeous.

[@ajafkham99]

COLDPLAY ROCKS!!! "WOMEN LIFE FREEDOM" "WOMEN LIFE FREEDOM" "WOMEN LIFE FREEDOM"

[@epmariha2047]

Love from France and Morocco ❤🙏😭 ❤🙏Women Life Freedom ❤🙏

[@annavictoria12345678]

My heart goes with you Iranian people. May you be strong to overcome this and get the freedom you deserve ❤ sending you love

[@sgnobahar]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@kiwi5254]

She is wearing a Traditional Balochi dress ( Worn by Balochi people )

[@marcelodma79]

I was there on 10/28/2022 a few meters from stage C, where everything happens... the emotion of the moment was total... thank you Coldplay!!! Women Life Freedom

[@ThrillsofColdplay]

Literally sounded like a song they would make

[@takiyaazrin7562]

Baraye 1. Women are not allowed to show their hair 2. Women are not allowed to sing 3. Women are not allowed to dance 4. Women are not allowed to divorce 5. Women are not allowed to enter stadium 6. Women are not allowed to ride motorbike 7. Women are not allowed to go overseas alone 8. Women are not allowed to join military 9. Women are not allowed to become a witness 10. Women are not allowed to become a judge

[@AS.Se7en]

It is not all about women it is for all people in Iran who are suffering

[@lost9206]

Jin jiyan azadî 🌹💜

[@coconutgroove]

"evil" is a concept. choosing to be evil is a decision. We hope for all the Iranians to be free and away from all the evil 🤲🤲🤲

[@seyedhojatnasiri8907]

Women , life, freedom washhands

[@khurshedakhursheda6860]

Respect Coldplay we love you

[@pedramraof8808]

#Toomaj_SALEHI #TOOMAJ_SALEHI_IRANIAN_PROTEST_SINGER #TOOMAJ_SALHEI_SHOULD_BE_FREED #Toomaj_tortured_be_ iranian_rejim #Toomaj_salehi♥️♥️♥️

[@amirgholami6928]

my pleasure FOR brave human that love iran , love iranian and love to live in FREEDOM about

[@bordercollie4217]

From France, I am with You !

[@sgnobahar]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@AS.Se7en]

What a great music. Meaningful too

[@matadewa1348]

Women life FREEDOM .. for women Iran

[@freedom9689]

Thank you to Argentina and Argentines Thank you coldplay thank you all ❤🙏

[@zamirakurbonbekova6591]

this is soo powerful, thank you for bringing up important issues that not always get the attention that they deserve. I pray for all the farsi speaking countries that face repression in one form or another.

[@hastiazadi2770]

Woman life freedom 🖤🖤

[@veronicapereyra6868]

Estuve presente me emocioné llore y pedí por un mundo 🌎 mejor.. donde la gente tenga PAz salud educación..sin humanos crueles que nos gobiernen...💜🙏

[@armmineh]

Thank you for your support for Iranian brave women .

[@_tOxicBraiN_]

سلام من یک ایرانی هستم و واقعا وقتی این اهنگ رو شنیدم دوباره برای بار های زیاد قلبم گرفت Hi, I'm an Iranian, and really when I heard this song, my heart started again.

[@shahilagh]

Music is dangerous. When I re re re listen to this highly emotive song, I consciously remember to put a wall between my heart and mind. Music can make us blind and make us do things we shouldn’t do. Freedom needs strategy not emotion. Iranians used similar emotive songs to pursue their Islamic Revolution in 1979 to free them from their previous king who had accepted to change his way of ruling the country. Alas high emotions do not allow people to think.

[@nathalieburli4383]

Azadiiii Liberté Freedom Liberta

[@noanoor]

Many countries have changed when Iran had the islamic revolution. Many people are suffering from it now. Women in my country (Bahrain) used to dress up normally including short skirts etc but now they all wear black and it’s depressing and hella sad. Wishing the Iranian people freedom

[@user-ph4eg2sf9d]

Ohhhh,it is bad.....🥲😭😭i hope every woman get her quality and freedom

[@umitceviren8888]

This is very touching song 😢

[@saidsiary111]

Many thanks to Coldplay ✌👏❤❤

[@umu-i-d2785]

Amazing performance Barayeh Azadi . Women , life, freedom

[@aramk2442]

Thank you Buenos Aires ❤❤❤❤ to back Iranian people ❤❤❤❤

[@soledadmoreno7844]

I was there... It was justo magic...

[@arashkian4872]

دمتون گرم، عالی 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@AY-lm8qh]

گلشیفته جان عالی بود❤🎉

[@minefrank4450]

sie kämpfen und kämpfen und geben nicht auf - ich hab einfach nur Gänsehaut - mögen sie es schaffen.. so dass sie unbeschwert leben und ihre Religion frei von Politik leben können.

[@ahmedbaloch7818]

افتخار من شگفتہ

[@faezehdiary1285]

For my country❤ iran

[@7love7laugh]

Love the acoustic guitar version. Also love Golshifteh’s dress - does anyone know where she got it? Is it a traditional Iranian dress?

[@sgnobahar]

Yea, it is a traditional local dress.

[@carpediem1942]

This is a traditional Baluchi dress from Baluchistan. Which is divided into Iran , Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[@dlo_pashaei]

مهسا امينى🖤🇹🇯🤍

[@OlgaBlinova-bm5xk]

Respekt ❤❤❤

[@henan021]

dilé we saxbe jana we jana meye 🙏

[@nushinroshanioskui9619]

Gracias Coldplay por ser la voz de mis compatriotas en Irán. Shervin compuso ésta canción después de que el gobierno Islámico asesinó a una inocente chica llamada Mahsa Amini. Shervin en ésta canción expresa todo lo malo que está pasando en Irán. Por la libertad de todo el pueblo INOCENTE de Irán. Gracias Shervin quien fue arrestado y estuvo días en prisión y ha salido bajo fianza. Su salida del país fue prohibida, y permanece en prisión domiciliaria hasta la fecha de su juicio 😔. Seamos la voz de ellos compartiendo porfavor 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ida3113]

Got me in tears

[@leechild7466]

beautiful, thank you.

[@bahador2123]

Just beautiful ❤️❤️

[@maryamgish3841]

When in heard this song I couldn’t help but 😢 Hope to god these animals leave our country please God ☘️💚🤍🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@anjawieczorek4213]

Nice nice. But check out the metal version of this song by Ifa.

[@joannatarasiewicz4348]

I checked yesterday. Absolutely incredible.

[@floratorossian1813]

azadi for everyne

[@amirzn2094]

Thanks, you legend for your support iran

[@WisamAbouHarb]

WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING BIG FOR SYRIANS INSIDE SYRIA. I AM IN DAMASCUS AND I FEEL SCARED.

[@elinaeghterafi462]

iran is the best❤❤❤

[@kausarmazari9289]

Great message thank you

[@nanas.s6905]

#woman life freedom 🤘🏻👽

[@Bemantix]

Freeeeeeeedooooooooom! ✌✊

[@maryammohammadi2074]

Tanks

[@OlgaBlinova-bm5xk]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@Mnklinik.2019]

😢😢

[@OlgaBlinova-bm5xk]

❤

[@Rohwit]

Sending much love from India. How is Shervin? Do we know anything? We are living in dark here as well. This would be us soon. But we will keep the light on

[@sgnobahar]

Thank you Rohit. From what arrives to us, seems he is ok. But unfortunately you can never be sure. Of-course he is under control.

[@Rohwit]

@@sgnobahar thank you Sogandh. Prayers. Always.

[@santaclause3517]

peace of the world!

[@user-jh9bp1tw2n]

Она снималась в фильме с ДиКаприо?

[@amadamadi1222]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@louisrajan9395]

3...2...1...go...

[@user-tq8im6zs8l]

World Peace💖💕💕💕

[@tadiwamoyo6556]

😢😢😢😢

[@monicabadio8876]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏😘❣️

[@MarioFortino]

💪🏼🙏🏼👍🏼

[@mochtegerndane7097]

Freedom is not given. Freedom is conquered. It is taken. No class in history has ever given up their power voluntarily. For that, you need a strong and armed people. Says an old sandinista,

[@meherbabagod-man1831]

💘💘💖💖❤❤

[@moodasf]

this is my translation not word by word but I tried my best name of song: for the sake of name of singer: shervin hajipour ( he was arrested for posting the song on social media and forced to remove the original version and he is still in prison ) in order to dance on the alley (dancing is illegal in public in Iran and punish able by law) for the sake of fear in time of kissing (kissing and showing affection in public is illegal in Iran and punish able by law) for the sake of my sister, your sister and our sisters (referring to the treatment of women as second class citizens in Iran) in order to change the rotten ideology (referring to the bias believes in Iran toward freedom) for the sake of embracement of lacking or having little income (due to economical problems in Iran people don't have jobs or they receive little income for daily needs) for the sake of having a normal life (due to the archaic laws and economical hardship) for the sake of street kids and their dreams (in Iran there are many street kids that survive by scavenging food scraps from garbage bins) because of the forced economy (in Iran government change the price of goods and foreign exchange rate to force people to pay higher rates so government can rubbed them from their income) in order to stop air pollution (due to lack of natural gas the government is burning waste oil to generate electricity which cause so much pollution) for the sake of haggard trees that are on the side walk of the valie-e-asr street ( due to recent sever drought many of old trees in capital city Tehran specially valie-e-asr street are dead or dying ) for the sake of pirooz and possibility of extinction of its species ( pirooz was an astatic cheetah cub given the name pirooz meaning victories in Persian because he was the only one in the litter that survived, it was the first time there was a successful birth in captivity. unfortunately pirooz passed away at 10 month old, there only 12 static cheetah alive in Iran. side note: when I was translating this part I break down in tears because at the time of recording the music pirooz was still alive )😢😢😢😢 for the sake of condemned innocent dogs ( in recent years in Iran having dog as a house pet or owning it in general has been banned, even street dogs are killed by acid injection because Iranian government believes owning a dog as pet which is an untouchable animal represent western culture ) for the sake of constant crying (due to current situation in Iran ) because of repeat of this image at that tragic moment ( refers to watching the moment of Ukrainian airplane getting shot down by Iranian regime by father of one of the victims over and over again. side note: I almost started to cry all over again ) for the sake of the smiling face ( refers to Iranian girls hides their faces in social media due to speaking up against the government and fear of retaliation or hiding it in general due to sexist culture in Iran ) for the sake of student and their future ( at the time of writing Iranian government has poisoned many school girls at school by gas in retaliation because school girls were in forefront of demonstrations, Iranian government killed many school girls during demonstrations ) for the sake of this forced heaven ( referring to government using religion as a tool to control people in any way possible from freedom of speech all the way to the forced dress code on women in Iran ) for the sake of imprisoned geniuses ( refers to imprisonment of Iranian open minded intellectuals ) for the sake of Afghani children ( in Iran many children of Afghani heritage denied the very basic needs based on their ethnicity ) for the sake of all this and for the sake of not repeat able ( refers to tweets and hashtag of "for sake" slogan of movement which is tweeted and hash tagged over and over again but it is still refresh and new ) for the sake of all this empty slogans ( referring o school kids being forced to protest on the streets with slogans of death to America and Israel which they don't believe in it ) for the sake of statics of decaying houses ( referring to collapsing of apartments building due to being built on incorrect regulation by corrupt oligarchs of Iran to make money ) for the sake of feeling of peacefulness ( people wanting to feel in peace in the present situation of Iran ) for the sake of sunrise after long nights ( referring to the winter solstice which is celebrated in Iran, in Iranian mythology in the morning of winter solstice good wins over evil ) because of insomnia and depression pills ( people in Iran being under mental pressure ) for the sake of manhood, nation, prosperity ( the second part of movement slogan ) for the sake the girl who wished she was born as a boy ( referring to inequality between boys and girls in Iran ) for the sake of womanhood, life and freedom ( first part of movement slogan ) for freedom for freedom for freedom

[@christianlebracq1956]

❤💖

[@user-jh9bp1tw2n]

Как зовут девушку которая поет?

[@WisamAbouHarb]

MY ALL SUPPORT FROM SYRIA!! WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING STRONG AGAINST THE BULLSHIT DAMN SYSTEM!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😡👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@aidanfordyce4239]

The translation is incorrect "چون" (choon) would be because, "برای" (baraye) translates to for.

[@aidanfordyce4239]

As in "For woman, life, freedom" and "for freedom"

[@rokan9875]

✍من زن هستم بال‌های من قفس را می‌شکنند طغیانِ زخم‌های من به پای دیو می‌پیچد من از شعور به آزادی می‌رسم من خالق آفریده شده‌ام خالق آزاد است 🧿

[@AussieExplorerHub]

❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤✌️✌️✌️

[@umitceviren8888]

We are living in 2022 and there are some stupid people deciding what we have to wear what we eat what we do they are try to playing god they give decision who dies and who live such tham world we become

[@rlb3726]

Free him AI & Austrua❤

[@pariaziayi8719]

🤍

[@sevdeceezgiler7067]

A very nice piece whose lyrics are meaningful and appeal to the emotions. However, there have been many artistic attempts to prevent pregnant women and children from being in prison and their struggle in Turkey, and you have not announced any of them with such big concerts. I'm sorry, but I'm looking for an ulterior motive. If art music is universal, if emotion is resonance, shouldn't there be a voice for everyone without separating the nation?