When Iran’s ayatollah banned music and performances in the entire country, instruments and records became contraband, | dG1fTUh1SzhMQ2toYUk
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00:00 [Music]
00:12 The story is important because it contains a microcosm of Iran's history.
00:17 All these attempts at change and all these heartbreaks at the change becoming stasis and hope become fear.
00:28 The hopes and fears of a nation.
00:31 [Music]
00:38 I think Shahjaryan, by instinct, he has been catapulted into someone who really articulates the pains of the past
00:48 in order to find his way, her way, the country's way towards a more hopeful future.
00:56 [Music]
01:01 [Foreign Language]
01:30 [Foreign Language]
01:52 [Music]
01:56 Muhammad Reza Shahjaryan, the superstar of Persian traditional music.
02:01 Ayatollah Khomeini banned music in Iran.
02:04 Iran exports terror and acts of evil.
02:08 After Iran's disputed presidential election, Shahjaryan demanded state radio and television stop broadcasting his music.
02:16 [Foreign Language]
02:19 State media boycotted him and yet his popularity grew.
02:24 [Music]
02:30 [Foreign Language]
02:49 [Music]
03:04 [BLANK_AUDIO]