.... Teaching music in state schools has always been prohibited, Bagherzadeh added. A school that teaches music may be permanently closed and its director barred from opening another school, he emphasised. The ban applies to the use of all instruments, including those played in traditional Iranian music. Iran’s 16,000 private schools have 1.1 million students.
Meanwhile, Iran has set aside $1.5 billion to promote “moral conduct,” including enforcement of its dress code for women, “to solve the cultural and social ills” in society, Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said last month. [The Freethinker] Read more
