British soul singer Joss Stone says she was deported from Iran despite no intentions of performing in the country
"Well, we got to Iran, we got detained and then we got deported," Stone said on Instagram as she arrived in the Islamic Republic mid-world tour. She didn't plan a concert in Iran, Stone said, adding she knew solo performances by women were illegal.British soul singer Joss Stone says she was deported from Iran after arriving in the Islamic Republic as part of a worldwide concert tour, even though she didn't plan to perform there.
She wrote that Iranian authorities placed her on a "blacklist" because they believed she might try to perform a public show. "These people are genuinely nice kind people that felt bad that they couldn't override the system," she wrote in a caption. Iranian newspapers reported Stone's Instagram comments on Thursday, though there was no immediate government comment on her claims.
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