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    Default Underground rock concertgoers arrested in Iran

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    Underground rock concertgoers arrested in Iran
    Last Updated: Monday, August 6, 2007 | 9:47 AM ET
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    More than 200 people attending an underground rock concert near Tehran have been arrested by Iranian authorities, local officials and media reported on Saturday.

    Authorities said they seized video cameras, CDs, alcohol, drugs and revealing female clothing on Wednesday from the concert site in the city of Karaj, located west of the capital.

    Ali Farhadi, the Karaj public prosecutor, told Iran's state broadcaster that 230 people were identified and arrested at the concert, which other officials have dubbed "satanic."

    Iran only permits rock music performances by groups who have procured a license from the Ministry of Culture.

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    And from a little corner of the USA..ahem...KXMB Bismark, North Dakota

    Large quantities of recording equipment, alcohol, bootleg CDs, revealing female clothing and also drugs were seized at the concert in the city of Karaj just west of the capital, in Tehran province. . .

    “An investigation is in progress and soon a verdict will be issued for the main elements of the satan-worshipping instigatators and all these people will be punished.”

    ...but I had to post this reaction to it from Six Meat Buffet:

    Who the hell do these people think they are? Al and Tipper Gore?

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    one has to ask if there were any badgers or squirrels caught in the round up?
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    Authorities said they seized...alcohol, drugs and revealing female clothing...
    I'm sorry to say that all I can do is picture a Pythonesque skit with the police taking obvious puerile delight in enumerating their booty, to use an appropriate turn of phrase.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
    one has to ask if there were any badgers or squirrels caught in the round up?
    Naw...they're far too smart for that. That's what the expendable pigeon troops are there for....
    "On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
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    Default Get caught at a rock concert in Iran and you will be sentenced to death...by stoni

    From the Free Republic

    Chaos ensued when the band played “You Dropped The Bomb On Me”...
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    Default We want the fihk.

    Quote Originally Posted by Stan View Post
    Chaos ensued when the band played “You Dropped The Bomb On Me”...
    Yeah, they was dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
    And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted
    Play that fihky music Shia boy
    Play that fihky music right...

    OK, Stan, you won that round. Best of three?
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    Iran only permits rock music performances by groups who have procured a license from the Ministry of Culture.
    So, I would guess then that the old BeeGees song would be fine?

    Blame it all.... on the knights of Broadway....
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    Wonder what they think about Country and Western?
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    I dunno, Slapout. Some of that stuff is pretty subversive. Tammy Wynette singing "Bony Fingers" or Dolly Parton singing "Nine to Five" wouldn't cut it on Radio Qom, I don't think.
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    Default Hello, I'm Johnny Cash...

    Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
    Wonder what they think about Country and Western?
    Mr. Slapout9,

    If the name Toby Keith means anything to them, then I think we can safely conclude that C & W is banned.

    It is too bad Johnny Cash has passed away. If he felt comfortable enough playing in Folsom Prison, it would have been logical to play in Iran (where the whole dang country seems to be under lockdown).

    This line might just bring down the house:
    But I shot a man in Tehran,
    Just to watch him die.

    But since Cash has gone on to meet his maker, I suggest Junior Brown, instead. He's got the baritone to do a mean version of Folsom Prison Blues.
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    Default Bam-Pow 'Stupid Scarves'

    Quote Originally Posted by Nat Wilcox View Post
    Yeah, they was dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
    And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted
    Play that fihky music Shia boy
    Play that fihky music right...

    OK, Stan, you won that round. Best of three?
    OK, Nat, Let's go in a slightly different direction

    From the Perisian Journal under Women

    "Guns may shoot and knives may carve, but we won't wear your stupid scarves."

    Ten-year-old Marji fights Iran's veil of extremism with wit and defiance. That is until a group of club-wielding men come after her.
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