Iran's most famous dancer found guilty of promoting corruption

Tuesday, July 9, 2002

TEHRAN, Iran -- Ruling that teaching traditional Iranian dance corrupts the nation's youth, a court banned an Iranian-American dancer from leaving Iran for 10 years and from giving dance classes for life, his lawyer said Monday.

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