Thousands of people took to the streets to commemorate Morteza Pashaei, 30-year-old singer who died of cancer late last week.
Morteza Pashaei is an Iranian singer who died of stomach cancer late last week. He never got to hear most of his songs play on state television as authorities considered the majority of them to be “too romantic.”
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Pashaei was still wildly popular in Iran, especially for the song “Negarane Mani,” or “You Are Worried About Me.”
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Literally thousands of people turned up at his funeral on Sunday. Enough people showed up that his burial at the Behesht Zahra cemetery “was delayed for several hours because of the huge crowd.”
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“We will bury him in secret, in a better organized ceremony,” Mr. Pashaei’s promoter, Mohammad Hossein Toutounchian, told the Iranian Students’ News Agency.
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