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00:00and this community welcomed me so warmly.
00:07Before Madonna, before Beyonce, Cher, everybody,
00:11you were the mega pop star.
00:16The only place I've ever been to was in America.
00:20I was a child, I was a teenager,
00:23and I was in the middle of the world.
00:26The only place I felt safe and free was on the stage, where I was living.
00:41They said they were going to kill me. I said, don't kill me, I'm dying here.
00:48I felt that something political was going to happen.
00:56But I didn't feel that I was going to be locked up for 21 years.
01:17Iran will be free at the hands of its own children.
01:47I feel like I'm going to die.