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Ayatollah Khomeini had decreed: “Women’s voices should not be heard by men other than members of their own families.”She told the Daily Telegraph that to continue her vocal practice she used to walk by night from her home in the historic north-Tehran Niavaran foothills to her cabin in the mountains, where she would sing next to a roaring waterfall: “Nobody could hear me. I sang to the stars and the rocks.”
