Campaigning for Rouhani and reformist lists
Alidoosti publicly backed reformist lists in the 2016 parliamentary vote and Hassan Rouhani in 2013 and 2017, urging people to vote. Hardline outlets at the time called celebrity endorsements a betrayal of public trust. After her 2022 protest stance, opposition critics cited the same campaigning to call her a former insider; supporters say voting then was a survival strategy. In 2020 she wrote tha
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- Mashregh lists her among "election darlings" - Mashregh News published a piece on celebrities who campaigned for the government-backed list in the 2016 parliamentary election, naming Alidoosti and saying she posted the reformist coalition's list on Instagram. The piece framed such endorsements as something celebrities owe the public an accounting for. عزیزکردههای انتخاباتی
- Public endorsement of Rouhani's re-election - Donya-e-Eqtesad, citing ILNA, and Khabar Online reported that Alidoosti posted on Twitter and Instagram that she would vote for Rouhani because she remembered the "suffocation" and hourly price rises of the eight years before him and did not want to go back, and urged everyone to vote. چرا ترانه علیدوستی به روحانی رای میدهد؟
- "We are captives" - The Guardian reported that after the downing of Ukrainian flight PS752, Alidoosti wrote on Instagram that Iranians were "not citizens" but "captives", marking a sharper break with the establishment she had once urged people to vote within. 'We are captives': Iranian actor criticises Tehran government
- Past campaigning used against her after the BBC documentary - Hamvatan24 wrote that the main weapon used against Alidoosti and Pegah Ahangarani after the documentary "Taraneh" was their past role in reformist and moderate election campaigns, including backing Rouhani in 2013 and 2017, and defended their right to political change. A Jamaran analysis republished by Khabar Online noted that part of the monarchist camp also attacked her. دو لبهی یک قیچی؛ چرا ترانه و پگاه سیبل «استبداد قضاوت» شدهاند؟