Nezhat Amiri, Iran’s only female orchestral conductor and her fight to conduct. This article is from 8 years ago. Sadly I can’t find anything more recent. I hope she’s conducted other performances since then. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/20/the-conductor-smashing-iranian-taboos-over-women-and-music #NezhatAmiri #Iran #classicalMusic #femaleconductor #genderpolitics #Tehran #MarinAlsop #ParvizMansouri #MortezaHannaneh #orchestra #IranianMusic #PersianClassicalMusic