(New York Times) Nazila Fathi - Iran's educational authorities will send 1,000 religious clerics into schools in Tehran to tamp down Western influence and political opposition, newspapers reported on Sunday. The deputy director of Tehran's education department, Mohammad Boniadi, said the clerics would work to make students "aware of opposition plots." Last month, the government reinstituted its ban against teaching music in schools. Cultural authorities have also issued guidelines for permissible male haircuts.
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