THE TELEGRAPH
BY ROBERT TAIT
He has the image of an elderly curmudgeon of uncompromisingly anti-Western prejudices but Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top cleric, has shown a surprising side of his character by revealing a taste for some of the West’s music.
The hitherto unknown trait was revealed in a series of postings on the Iranian supreme leader’s Twitter page marking World Music Day in which he praises the West’s “instructive and meaningful” music.
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