Iran: No More Beethoven? · Global Voices
Fred Petrossian

In Free Thoughts, a collective Iranian blog, we read The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to ban all Western music from his nation’s state radio and TV stations. According to TCS daily, Newspaper columnists attacked Ali Rahbari,who was the conductor of Tehran’s symphony orchestra and chose to perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Rahbari was accused of “promoting Western values.”