What a bummer! I do hope the Iranian people will soon find a way to rid themselves of these theocrats.

Islam, as are all religions, is not compatible with reason, common sense, human progress, or for that matter universal and unalienable rights. That music, or any other art form, fails to live up to some benighted theological “ideals” is truly a marvelous rationale for indulging to one’s content!

We are a nation without any culture
  We are a nation without any morals
  We are a nation without any money (of our own)
  We are a nation without any leadership
  We are a nation that depends on terror for economic
  reasons
  We are a nation that only points fingers one way
  We are a nation that badly needs some self examining

Wait a sec, since when does America believe in teaching music?

I wish they would talk about how controlled
mainstream music is in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
and what garbage it is for most part.

Does the professor speak of the untold dollars that
the CIA funnels into Iran to destabilize their government
and their society?

All this crap about Iran is a lie, is a lie, is a LIE

Like I said,,,,,,LinkTV,  has always had Music, plays,
and movies straight from Iran.

  this is all prelude to war rhetoric.

I don’t care what some stinkin professor said.

I watched it for two years straight and every one in Iran
was tickled to death that Obama got elected because he
promised to have direct talks with the Iranian counterpart

Does it get enforced?

I’m sure there are many young Irani professionals who are looking for this guy to retire.

Re : “Khamenei’s comments came in response to a request for a ruling by a 21-year-old follower of his, who was thinking of starting music lessons” . . . It’s better that our dear youth spend their . . . time in learning science and . . .useful skills and fill their time with sport and healthy recreations. . .  he said.”

Interesting that Khamenei would encourage science, but not music. Researchers have found that music lessons help to improve memory skills in young children and are actually good for cognitive development:

“.  .  . children taking music lessons improved more over the year on general memory skills that are correlated with non-musical abilities such as literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial processing, mathematics and IQ than did the children not taking lessons.

The finding of very rapid maturation of the N250m component to violin sounds in children taking music lessons fits with their large improvement on the memory test. It suggests that musical training is having an effect on how the brain gets wired for general cognitive functioning related to memory and attention.

Dr Fujioka added: “Previous work has shown assignment to musical training is associated with improvements in IQ in school-aged children. Our work explores how musical training affects the way in which the brain develops. It is clear that music is good for children’s cognitive development and that music should be part of the pre-school and primary school curriculum.”

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060920093024.htm

The Supreme Leader “said”. Who gives a goddamn?

For at least the past 20 years, Iran has had the richest popular culture in the world: poets, bloggers, filmmakers, classical composers, novelists, short story writers, sculptors. It also has the most active women’s movement & STREET active political culture. (When the elections were stolen in June 2009, hundreds of thousands took to the streets, thousands were arrested, many died. When the election of 2000 was stolen here, it was “Get over it! What time is ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ on?”)

And this society and culture is being threatened and lectured by the cheeseball gangster state of Israel? And by the dumbest culture in the history of Man, our own?

I am not even going to read this silly article.

I have watched LinkTV ,,,, and article is a lie.

LinkTV always has controvsial music, plays, and movies
from Iran…

Most of them are not very complementary to fundementalism.
But the music, and movies, and plays are all made in
Iran…
ANOTHER PRELUDE TO WAR DECEPTIVE JOURNALISM….........

It’s probably not so much music as it is western music and its particular rhythms and lyrics that threaten traditional religioius teachngs and introduce threats of worldwide intrusions on parochial power.  It has not been so long since any but church music was considered corrupting of Christian values here. 
  It behooves us to remember that time brings changes not according to our particular schedule, that there is an invisible Greenwich Line where cultural differences must be taken into consideration if the clock of history is to function at all.  But also, time eventually tends toward adaptation to change, and does so much less painfully than force and violence.
  Everybody does not have to agree in order to maintain peace.  Everybody just has to learn to have patience—and wind the clock occasionally when the opportunity arises.

This is awful and the Iranian people will no doubt one day shake off this kind of repression, but no doubt lunatics here in the U.S. will say we need to bomb Iran so they can have music classes back.

I hope the Iranians realize how illogical Khamenei’s words are. It takes something
this extreme, probably, for some to realize that their religious leaders are
enslaving them.