Free Republic

TEHRAN, Iran -- A young woman driving through the Iranian capital blared the Eagles' ''Hotel California'' from her car speakers -- an act that would have gotten her pulled over by police, and possibly arrested, 20 years ago during the frenzy of the Islamic Revolution. To Pari Mahmoudi, who grew up in an era when many of the 1979 revolution's restrictions have been dropped or ignored, a new ban on Western music ordered this week by Iran's hard-line president seems too ludicrous to be real. ''Don't take this man seriously,'' the 25-year-old scoffed Tuesday, referring to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But...