Iran’s president bans Western music

GEORGE Michael, Eric Clapton and Kenny G will no longer be heard on Iranian airwaves after hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a decree banning Western music from the country’s radio and TV stations.

Mr Ahmadinejad, as head of Iran’s Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council, ordered the enacting of an October ruling by the council for Western songs to be banned.

Songs such as George Michael’s Careless Whisper, Eric Clapton’s Rush and Hotel California by the