Iranian children are dancing to pop music and the government is furious

[Eugene]

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.

Mankan’s “dance challenge” for fans — centered on his “Gentleman” song — appears to have raised suspicions among Iran’s 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/

[ck4829]

1. And a war will destroy this phenomenon more thoroughly than any crackdown will

[Chin music]

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]

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]

4. Uhhh yeah...like the U.S.A.

[Nitram]

5. Rock'n'Roll defeated the Soviet Union from within.