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Article: IRAN: PLEASURE, PAIN, AND THE GENERATION GAP.(fundamentalists find duty to disrupt joyous celebrations)(Brief Article)
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- March 20, 2002
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"Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain," English jurist and scholar John Selden wrote. Recent events in two of Iran's biggest cities suggest that the intermission will be a short one, and in the view of at least one Iranian writer, this is a symptom of Iran's "generation gap." The police chief in Mashhad canceled the "Let's Be Happy Again" comedy festival because he feared a public disturbance. Local prayer leader and Supreme Leader's Representative Ayatollah Mohammad-Baqer Shirazi had issued a religious decree or fatwa which declared that it is a religious duty to disrupt such an event. Mashhad-based journalist Mohammad-Sadeq Javadi-Hesar said in an 8 ...
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