The face of the tattoo that covers the face of Iranian rapper Tatalo is highlighted against the uniform of the gray prison, which is now wearing 37 -year -old while waiting for death, and its height and its fall tracking chaos in the last decade of Iranian policy.
Tatalo, whose name was completely Amir Hussein Maghusodlo, is the death penalty after being convicted of “insulting the Islamic Jerusalem”.
It is far from when he once supported an Iranian presidential candidate.
Tatalo's music has become a rumor among the youth of the Islamic Republic, as the theococracy of Iran challenged at a time when the opposition of the country's government was not largely and without a leader.
The words of the rapper became increasingly politically after Mahasa Amini's death in 2022 and the subsequent wave of protests worldwide.
He also appeared in the music videos that criticized the authorities.
“When you appear in a music video, you say,” hey, I am here, and I do not care about your restrictions, “said Ali Hamdani, a BBC, a former journalist who had an interview with rapper in 2005.
Last month, the Iranian Supreme Court supported the death penalty.
“This ruling has now been confirmed and prepared for implementation,” Aghhar Jahangir told reporters at a press conference last month.
Activists criticized his execution, which is looming on the horizon and expressed his concern for his safety after he tried to kill himself in prison.
From a music video on a warship to exile
Tatalo began his musical career in 2003 as part of the underground type of Iranian music that combines western patterns of rap, rhythm and rock with the Persian words.
His first album, which was released in 2011, the polarized fans, although he did not play publicly in Iran, where the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance controls all concerts.
Tatalo appeared in a 2015 music video that supports the Iranian semi -military guard and the Tehran nuclear program, which has been targeted by the West for a long time due to fears that it might allow the Islamic Republic to develop a atomic bomb.
Although he never discussed the motive behind this, it seems that the rapper was hoping to win the good with theocratic or may have a travel ban against him.
In the video of “Energy Hastei”, or “Nuclear Energy”, Tataloo sings a powerful song in front of the guards who carry the gun and then on the Iranian frigate DAMAVAND in the Caspian Sea. The ship was later sank during a storm in 2018.
“This is our absolute right: to have an armed Persian bay,” Tattalo sang.
He released Tataloo to support in favor of Ebrahim Raisi militants in 2017.
That year, the two sat on his appearance on TV as part of the failed presidential campaign of Rizi against the moderate Hassan Rohani.
Risi later won the presidency in 2021, but was killed in a helicopter accident in 2024.
Fame in Türkiye, imprisoned to Iran
In 2018, Tataloo – who faced legal problems in Iran – was allowed to leave the country to Türkiye, where many Persian singers and the performance passed.
Tataloo hosted live video sessions while he was famous for social media, as he became known for the tattoo that covers his face and body.
Among them is an Iranian flag and a picture of his mother next to a key and a heart.
Instagram abolished his account in 2020 after he invited underage girls to join his “team” for sex. He also confessed to taking drugs.
“Although he is a controversial rapper, Tatalo has a mass base in Iran, known as” Tatalis “. Over the years, they immersed social media with solidarity messages for him and even they carried a campaign to release the rapper in the past when he was arrested on a separate charge.”
Tatalo rebel music struck a sensitive chord with the disadvantaged youth in Iran, where they struggled to find work, marriage and start their adult lives.
The theococracy of Iran has also increased in his words, especially after the death of Amini after its arrest because the veil was not wearing the admiration of the authorities.
His cooperation called “English Solh” – “The Peace Revolution” in the Persian – the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by name.
“We don't want tear gas, because there are tears in everyone's eyes,” he said.
But the music stopped Tatalo in late 2023.
The death penalty draws protests
The Criminal Court in Tehran initially handed over a five -year prison sentence for blasphemy. The Iranian Supreme Court cast the decision and sent his case to another court, which was sentenced to death in January.
Rapper has already faced ten years in prison due to a series of separate condemnation, including promoting prostitution and moral corruption.
“Tatalo is at risk of death,” said Mahmoud Amiri-Naghadam, director of the Iranian Dawa Group for Human Rights. “The international community, artists and the public must act to stop its execution.”
Tatalo earlier as his remorse in a trial.
“I have certainly made mistakes, and many of my actions were wrong,” he said, according to the state-owned daily JAM-E Jam. “I apologize for the mistakes I made.”
He said his uncle in Tatalo while he was executed in the class. Last month, Tatalo was said to have tried to kill himself, but he survived.
Abbas Melanie, an Iranian expert at Stanford University, said the death penalty comes in a political moment in Iran because the country is the “most isolated”.
He said that the Islamic Republic “is trying to know whether it could reach an agreement with the United States in its nuclear program and the lifting of sanctions.” He added that the anger of Tatalo's fans is “one headache they do not need.”
