Over the weekend Coldplay interrupted their concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to invite exiled Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani on stage to join them as they sang the anthem of the Iranian protest movement Baraye.
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After giving a tribute to the arrested Iranian pop singer Shervin Hajipour who wrote the song, Coldplay's frontman, Chris Martin, said his band would like to do something to support 'all the women and everyone fighting for freedom in Iran, and everywhere in fact'. The British singer added: 'Young women and young people are fighting for their freedom, for the right to be themselves.'
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