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Best-known for her role in "The Salesman", which won an Academy
Award in 2017, the pro-reform artist held up a sign in the
Instagram post which read "Woman, Life, Freedom" in Kurdish, a
popular slogan in the demonstrations.
Protests sparked by the Sept. 16 death of Kurdish woman Mahsa
Amini after her arrest by the morality police for not wearing
"appropriate attire" are posing one of the biggest challenges to
Iran's clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution.
Alidoosti, who is not a Kurd, wrote a poem in her Instagram
post. "Your final absence, the migration of singing birds, is
not the end of this rebellion," it read.
Alidoosti has posted many Instagram posts critical of the
clerical establishment in the past.
Since the start of protests, at least five female Iranian
actresses have posted pictures of themselves without the
compulsory hijab in solidarity with the demonstrations in which
women have played a leading role.
Iranian officials, who have blamed Amini's death on pre-existing
medical problems, say the unrest has been fomented by foreign
enemies including the United States, and accuse armed
separatists of perpetrating violence.
(Writing by Michael Georgy; editing by Alison Williams and Mark
Heinrich)
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