Provocative music video leads to arrests in Iran

Iran has arrested two music producers accused of working with a US-based Iranian pop singer whose risqué music video has caused outrage in the conservative Middle East country, the Associated Press reports. 

In the music video for his song “Tehran Tokyo," Sasan Heidari Yafteh, also known as Sasy, is shown dancing with popular American porn actress Alexis Texas and other scantily dressed backup dancers. 

The music video, clips of which were teased earlier this month before its full release on Wednesday, includes no nudity or graphic sexual content. But critics in Iran worry the video could prompt young viewers to seek out Texas’ other work. 

Iranian journalist and writer Emily Amraee called the song “more dangerous than polio.”