Iranian police are hunting for a group of girls who launched a viral Selena Gomez dance trend.
A video was posted online last week showing five young Iranian women performing a dance routine to the Afropop hit Calm Down by Rema and Selena Gomez.
The women danced without headscarves in front of tower blocks in Shahrak Ekbatan, a west Tehran housing development that has been a flashpoint of anti-government protests.
The next day a popular Twitter account sharing news from Ekbatan said police had visited looking for the girls.
“They looked for CCTV footage of Block 13 to identify the girls who were only dancing and were not involved in any political activity. Police were seen checking the footage and questioning the guards,” it said.
Since then Iranian women across the country have responded by posting videos of themselves performing the dance.
Activists have hailed the women in the 41-second video for their courage in defying the Islamic Republic’s ban on public dancing and strict public dress codes mandating the wearing of headscarves in public.
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