Iran has barred private schools from teaching music, saying it clashes with the establishment’s Islamic values, following a push to enforce moral standards that may lead to a national dress code for university students.
“The use of musical instruments is against the principles of our value system,’’ Ali Bagherzadeh, head of the private-schools office in the Education Ministry, said in a phone interview from Tehran yesterday. Iran’s 16,000 private schools have 1.1 million students, the Islamic Republic News Agency said.
