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Ayatollah Khamenei Tells Iranians to Forswear Music

By Paul WachterAug 3rd 2010 – 7:37AM

(Aug. 3) -- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday added an odd foe to the enemies list of the Islamic republic: music. "Although music is halal [permissible under Islam], promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic," Khamenei said....

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Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei (, , ; born 17 July 1939) is the Supreme Leader of Iran, and a Twelver Shi'a marja.

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