Intelligence Ministry has banned at least 26 popular Iranian singers..."this suggests that cultural censorship is very much ongoing, and in fact now goes much further than bans on pop music alone."

"The Intelligence Ministry has banned at least 26 popular Iranian singers, including Shahram Shokoohi, Mohsen Yeganeh, Reza Sadeghi and Sirvan Khosravi, from performing in Iran after their music was broadcast by satellite networks abroad. But the list of affected artists could be higher still, according to an extensive report published by Etemad newspaper on October 19.