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Iran orders ban on Western music
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Hip-hop blares from car radios in the streets of
the Iranian capital, and Eric Clapton's "Rush" and the Eagles' "Hotel
California" regularly accompany Iranian news broadcasts.
But Clapton, Kenny G., George Michael and other singers
incongruously popular in Iran will be off the airwaves after hard-
line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a decree banning Western
music from the country's radio and TV stations.
The decision was an eerie reminder of the 1979 Islamic revolution
when popular music was outlawed as "un-Islamic" under Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini.
The official IRAN ...
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