With their culture police and periodic banning of Western music, Iran isn't the place where you would expect to see a pop band - mixed with women and men - to be allowed but they're wildly popular and now officially sanctioned.
And what about this statement:
"Now, everything has changed. The belief of the people changed after the Iran-Iraq war, young people needed something else to be happy.
"That's why the government wanted to find a space for them and I think the best way was pop music."
At one point the band sold more than 54,000 tickets to one of their concerts in less than six hours.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4079581.stm
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