A dance challenge by a U.S.-based Iranian singer has raised suspicions among Iran’s ultraconservatives.
By Rick Noack Rick Noack Foreign affairs reporter focusing on Europe and international security Email Bio Follow May 22 at 9:46 AM View this post on Instagram نسلي كه كسي جلو دارش نيست ❤️ As the United States and Iran have traded threats these past weeks and inched closer to the brink of a military confrontation, Iranian hard-liners have identified a new “political plot” by an “enemy” who is “trying different ways to create anxiety among the people,” Education Minister Mohammad Bathaei warned.
Mankan’s “dance challenge” for fans — centered on his “Gentleman” song — appears to have raised suspicions among Iran’s ultraconservatives of a U.S.-linked cultural attack. Iranian state media outlets reported that an investigation was launched earlier this month. Shortly after the Islamic revolution in 1979, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini compared all music broadcast on TV or radio to opium and decided to ban it, arguing that it made the human brain “inactive and frivolous.”Instead, religious hard-liners in Iran and other countries have often relied on their own interpretations of the religious texts to justify restrictions, which critics say are just a pretext to crack down on political and ideological dissent.
Dances have also triggered backlashes in other parts of the Middle East, including in Tunisia, where “Harlem Shake” videos drew official condemnations in 2013. Although the Tunisian videos resulted in public tension, Iranian hard-liners have a powerful state apparatus behind them. In 2014, three unveiled Iranian women and three men were sentenced to suspended jail terms and flogging punishments for dancing to U.S. singer Pharrell Williams’s song, “Happy.
The duo had no such license, but their label, Barg Music, rapidly emerged as a heavyweight in Iran’s booming underground music scene.
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