Pink Floyd Hit Re-Worked As Iran Protest (VIDEO)

Iran's politics and Pink Floyd make strange bedfellows in an updated take on the classic 1979 anthem "Another Brick In The Wall" sung by an exiled Iranian duo.

According to The Guardian, the reworked version -- called "Hey Ayatollah, Leave Those Kids Alone!" -- is performed by Blurred Vision, two Iranian-born brothers who have been living in exile in Canada who would not provide their surname through fear of reprisals against family members who remain in the country. Shot by Iranian film director Babak Payami, the video intercuts footage of the band's performance with news images of street violence following Iran's 2009 elections, as well as a figure resembling the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Already known for his outspoken stance on Iran, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters gave Blurred Vision permission to release the track, now available on iTunes. According to Sepp, one half of Blurred Vision, the song was chosen because it has become an underground youth anthem in his native Iran.

Watch the video here:

Comments

[sheyaebert]

02:09 AM on 08/13/2010

FREE IRAN NOW!!!!!!!!!! Support the Revolution!!!!!!!!!!

[Hassan shoja]

09:42 AM on 08/08/2010

Wonderful, No decent education for lower class American citizens, no education for Iranians and no eduction for Arabs puppet monarchs.

We might as well hand over the world to China and get it over with.

Iran provides decent education for all her citizens even in smallest villages,

http://www.iranmilitaryforum.net/index.php?topic=3889.0

and that make west and Iranian exiles so mad to shout:

We don't need no education,
We do need (western)thought control,
No innovations in the classrooms,
Teacher leave us the kids alone,

All an all, it is another crack (Iran) in the wall,
All an all, it is another crack (China) in the wall.

[Hassan shoja]

10:00 AM on 08/08/2010

Some people complain that they cannot see the pictures from IMF website.

These pictures from the world's smallest school in the world from Iran are wonderful.

Try the link below, if you still cannot see the picture you have to register. Use a fake email if you are not comfortable to leave your real email.

http://www.iranmilitaryforum.net/index.php?topic=3889.msg28926#msg28926

[EvilBananaPt]

11:33 AM on 08/07/2010

To all the people that equate Hamas and Hizbollah to Iran that replyed to my post.

When an army is armed and funded by another country, that doesn't mean that it is that country army, just means that they are allies. Just like Saddam, he was armed and funded by USA and SA. Or the mujahedins, that latter created al-quaeda and are now fighting USA in Afghanistan. There was a tactical alliance between these armies and these countrys.

This is the same situation between Hamas, Hizbollah and Iran. They are allies with a strategic interests in common, but it ain't iran that is pulling the strings like some people argument.
Hamas and Hizbollah are armies that fight or fought the Israel occupation of their countries, and their interest in the zone are only of national interest. Being one of them to resist the occupation of the armies of Israel.

Yes they are criminals that kill innocent civilians, both so is Israel army. There ain't saints or devils in this conflict.
Don't go for the war propaganda...

PS: I was reading a book that made me nauseous about Saddam war crimes and the hundreds of thousands he killed. As I'm describing this to a army officer, he just rpplied 'saddam was a monster but the iraq war has caused more then a million deaths'.

War is not the solution to the ME problems, don't let the state propaganda and the war lobbies convince you of otherwise.

[Son of Sensi]

10:18 AM on 08/07/2010

Everyone keep something in mind about Iran:

The people in charge are lunatics, violent, self aggrondizing, savage lunatics. Give or take 1/2 the population of Iran hates the government, hates the support of Hammas and Hezbollah, and would like nothing more than a secular, democratic/republic state. Remind people of that when they talk about carpet bombing Iran.

That being said, Iran is the home of the Islamic revolution, and I don't know that they have another revolution in them just 30 years later.

So the question is: what do you do when half the country wants you and your children dead, and the other half would like to be friends?

[MiraMcB]

06:36 PM on 08/06/2010

AWESOME video! Love it. Pink Floyd will probably be banned in Iran and a dozen other Muslim countries now. Oh well, probably are already.

Down with the Mullahs! Yeah! *fist pumps..*

Ok, I'm good now.

[Holypat777]

04:13 PM on 08/06/2010

When I was in high school, we played this song in our music class. We had a biology class one day on circumcision and they showed this film (they felt the need I guess. Yuk!) The next class was music and we were rehearsing this song.

So I ad-libbed these lyrics in the chorus: (I was sent to the principal's office afterwards though)

"We don't need no, circumcision . . ./ All and all it's just a little skin you can fold . . ."

[Son of Sensi]

10:19 AM on 08/07/2010

very funny. i'd say worth the visit to the principal

[Holypat777]

09:18 AM on 08/09/2010

He gave me a speech then detention for 3 days. But I was off the singing duties for that song. Oh, well . . .

[TKDMike]

02:27 PM on 08/06/2010

MAYBE THERE IS HOPE FOR THESE PEOPLE - GOOOOD VIDEO

[Mikecola]

11:16 AM on 08/06/2010

After Israel invaded Lebanon in the early '80s Hezbollah was formed as a self-defense force against that Israeli aggression and occupation. Don't blame Iran for taking sides while excusing the USA for doing the same thing with Israel.

[Son of Sensi]

10:25 AM on 08/07/2010

A couple of things:

I'm not going to claim the invasion in '82 was justified, but you shouldn't act like it was unprovoked either.

The fact of the matter is Hezbollah does not do what is in the best interest of Lebanon, it does what is in the best interest of Iran. That makes the relationship very different from the one the US has with Israel, becuase as we've seen, Israel does whatever the f**k she pleases.

You explain to me how Hezbollah starting a fight with Israel, at this point, is ever in Lebanon's best interest. It's in Iran's, because it keeps making Israel appear a monster.

[RRanch]

10:49 AM on 08/06/2010

Always did like Pink Floyd

[Flyingpigs]

09:45 PM on 08/05/2010

WHAT A GREAT SONG!!!!! IMAGINE!!!! A GREEN THUMB UP!!!!

[Red Crow]

08:31 PM on 08/05/2010

Uncle $am calls for Democracy ... meanwhile, the last truly elected leader Iran had (Mossadeq) the CIA helped overthrow ...

google: Chutzpah

[MiraMcB]

06:38 PM on 08/06/2010

Yeah, that was unfortunate. You do have to acknowledge, however, that, if it hadn't been for the Shah's (and his wife's) forward looking policies on women's rights, education, etc., the Iranians wouldn't be nearly far along enough as a society to even be able to protest the way they have been. I'm just sayin'...

[Son of Sensi]

10:26 AM on 08/07/2010

you're not wrong, it's just that he brutally murdered and tortured people along the way to get there...

[Son of Sensi]

10:27 AM on 08/07/2010

for that matter, where are the concerned citizens bitching about the 2.5 billion we give egypt every year, even though they too have a de facto despot. the guy's been in power for 30 years.

[Red Crow]

08:29 PM on 08/05/2010

"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the country’s most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras ‘right’ for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."

---- Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler (Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps), November 1935

[EvilBananaPt]

07:20 AM on 08/06/2010

fanned for both comments :)

[Son of Sensi]

10:31 AM on 08/07/2010

just to give you the end of his quote, "During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

[Vlad Tepes]

07:58 PM on 08/05/2010

Time is running out for the mad mullahs

[EvilBananaPt]

10:26 AM on 08/05/2010

I'm no fan of the Ayatollah regime and I do hope it will be overturned soon (although it's unlikely), but this demonetizations of the same has a war mongering country that must be stopped are not only delusional but dangerous also.

Iran has never started a war during the last 100 years. It has however been attacked and it is surrounded by enemies. Iraq started a war against Iran with money and weapons borrowed from USA and SA. Not to mention that the democratic elected leader of Iran was overturned by USA and England. The Sha, who was a marionette dictator for western interests and was at least as oppressive as the ayatollahs was put in charge of the country.

It is highly unlikely that Iran will start a war. It never did and it would be disastrous to Iran if it did.

I only hope that the west doesn't interfere directly with Iran internal politics and let this society change from the inside.

good luck to the green revolution

[Son of Sensi]

05:50 PM on 08/05/2010

if you don't view Hezbollah or Hamas as proxy armies of Iran, then yes, I agree, they haven't attacked anyone, except their own citizens, in about 100 years.

[MiraMcB]

06:40 PM on 08/06/2010

Haha! Yep. Thanks for saving me the typing.

[Flyingpigs]

09:53 PM on 08/05/2010

It has never attacked? Hezbollah killing hundreds of Peace Keeping US marines in Lebanon... Hezbollah isn't a proxy; its the arm of Iran. They serve not the Lebanese but Iranian interests ONLY period!

If the GREEN REVOLUTION were to oust the present Totalitarian Regime; then just think what would happen in the ME. PEACE!!! including the Israelis and Palestinians - No ifs, Ands or Buts...

[EvilBananaPt]

07:19 AM on 08/06/2010

That's just as true as saddam ordering the 9/11 attacks. Hizbollah has close and strong ties to Iran, but that's just a logistic necessity. Hizbollah is a militia created to end the occupation of Israel in Lebannon, and it is a national lebannese group with very few interest outside Lebannon.

If Iran ceased to exist, Hizbollah and Hamas would lose strenght but wouldn't cease to exist. Their objectives are of national interest. The only way to exist peace in the middle east is to Israel stop the occupation and the 'preventive' wars and evasions.

Don't go in the media war propaganda. By now you should know better.

[EvilBananaPt]

10:11 AM on 08/05/2010

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace..
Jimi Hendrix

[Holypat777]

04:06 PM on 08/06/2010

Hendrix Fan!!!! That was a great quote. I had forgotten about it.

Fanned!