Members of Khonya group, from left to right, Pari Maleki, Farooq Kasmaei, Sima Hakimi,
Mazyar Akbari, Mojgan Moqtader, Shahin Fayyaz, Parvin Kazemi, Bita Qasemi, Afshin
Hashemi, Nima Niktab, perform to folk music at Honar Cultural Center in Tehran, Saturday,
Dec. 14, 2002. Two women singers broke taboo Saturday to sing in a concert for an
audience that also included men, a new move testing limits on expanding social freedoms
in Iran. After the 1979 Islamic revolution, clerics banned women from singing or
dancing for male audience as un-Islamic. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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