The Iranian music artist response to the protests there is being covered by Mark Levine. She has comments from a number of heavy metal and hip hop artists in that country.

If ‘Westoxification’ makes you see red, you’ll really be burned by this segment from CBC News last month.

Says the correspondent:

If you want to see what a modern Muslim revolution really looks like, you have to come here, to Iran.

The piece is titled “Iran’s Young Rebels” and described thusly:

In an exclusive investigation, we go inside Iran to explore the secret underground world of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll.

Objectively, there is some segment of Iranian youth culture that is keying off of American youth culture.

It’s really disappointing to think of how if the protesters prevail, the West and the US will probably continue to turn a cold shoulder while demanding that the Iranians prove an unprovable negative (that they aren’t secretly developing nuclear weapons).