Iran's songs of protest.

• Position: Middle East - Brief article

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Thousands of Iranians, many of them students, took to the streets in June 2009 to protest what was widely believed to be a fraudulent presidential election. Iran's repressive islamic government cracked down hard, killing dozens of protesters and injuring hundreds. A year later, with street protests silenced, Iran's young dissidents are generating a flood of "resistance music." Iranian officials have tried everything to silence it, blocking websites used to download songs and shutting down social-networking sites (which were also used to organize protests and distribute videos of government violence). But the music is still being downloaded, sold...