Coldplay showed their support for people protesting against the regime in Iran by performing a song that has been banned in the country at their sold-out stadium gig in Buenos Aires on Saturday night.
The chart-topping band played Shervin Hajipour’s song Baraye, which has become an anthem for the protest movement in Iran.
Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who has been exiled from the country since 2009 after appearing in an American film, joined Coldplay on stage to sing the song in Farsi at their concert, which was broadcast live to 80 different countries.
Introducing the song, front man Chris Martin began: ‘Maybe you see on the news right now that there are so many places where people are not able to gather like this and be free to be themselves.
‘Whether that’s to listen to what they want to listen to, to wear what they want to wear, to think what they want to think, to love who they want to love and particularly at the moment this is very clear in Iran.’