Western Music Banned in Iran: Black Market Sales of America’s “Horse With No Name” skyrocket.

“Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has signed a decree banning all Western music that 'does not conform to Islamic doctrines and the spirit of the Islamic Revolution.' The ban applies to state-run radio and TV. Television stations will only be allowed to broadcast relaxing and memorable revolutionary music.” (Reitov)

Only a few select artists have been deemed acceptable for play on Iranian public airwaves. Chief among them is the British mega-band Coldplay, which generally tends to encourage despair, suicide bombing and other forms of artistic fundamentalist Islamic expression.

Other western artists, such as Britney Spears, who was credited with a syphilis outbreak in Iran’s adolescent female population, and Creed, which promotes a specifically Christian type of revolutionary violence, are henceforth strictly forbidden from radio play in the theocratic Persian Gulf state. A fiery Iranian Communications Commission administrator explained in a transcribed interview that ‘we don’t tolerate that kind of crap in our country. Allah considers sucking to be an egregious sin for which the only suitable punishment is being raped in the ocular cavities by a camel.” Efforts to extradite former Creed front-man Scott Stapp to Iran have already begun.

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