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Related: About this forumIranian children are dancing to pop music and the government is furious
Source: Washington Post
Iranian children are dancing to pop music and the government is furious
By Rick Noack May 22 at 8:30 AM
As the United States and Iran traded threats these past weeks and inched closer to the brink of a military confrontation, Iranian hard-liners have identified a new political plot by an enemy who is trying different ways to create anxiety among the people, Education Minister Mohammad Bathaei warned.
Bathaei was not speaking about the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group or a bomber task force being deployed to the region earlier in May, however.
Instead, he was referring to video clips of Iranian schoolchildren, apparently recorded in multiple schools, dancing to music by Iranian pop singer Sasy Mankan.
Mankans dance challenge for fans centered on his Gentleman song appears to have raised suspicions among Irans ultraconservatives of a U.S.-linked cultural attack. Iranian state media outlets reported that an investigation was launched earlier this month.
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By Rick Noack May 22 at 8:30 AM
As the United States and Iran traded threats these past weeks and inched closer to the brink of a military confrontation, Iranian hard-liners have identified a new political plot by an enemy who is trying different ways to create anxiety among the people, Education Minister Mohammad Bathaei warned.
Bathaei was not speaking about the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group or a bomber task force being deployed to the region earlier in May, however.
Instead, he was referring to video clips of Iranian schoolchildren, apparently recorded in multiple schools, dancing to music by Iranian pop singer Sasy Mankan.
Mankans dance challenge for fans centered on his Gentleman song appears to have raised suspicions among Irans ultraconservatives of a U.S.-linked cultural attack. Iranian state media outlets reported that an investigation was launched earlier this month.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/22/iranian-children-are-dancing-pop-music-government-is-furious/
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Iranian children are dancing to pop music and the government is furious (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2019
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ck4829
(35,098 posts)1. And a war will destroy this phenomenon more thoroughly than any crackdown will
Chin music
(23,002 posts)2. Omg. Let's go bomb the hell out of them to set those kids free.
Disturbing on some levels to start getting stories about Iran of this nature bc, who can we trust and it may be ginning up feelings. We need to focus on America.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)3. While there's a focus on Iran right now
it's certainly a world-wide reality that leadership and many parts of the general population of many countries are having to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century AD!
ret5hd
(20,573 posts)4. Uhhh yeah...like the U.S.A.
Nitram
(22,985 posts)5. Rock'n'Roll defeated the Soviet Union from within.