The funeral ceremony of Kiumars Pourahmad


11 This plurality of institutions responsible for regulating cultural life almost invited a power struggle among the different political factions dominating these structures.The commitment to the Islamic values was embraced by every leader. But how to approach and to inculcate them evoked many disputes and discrepancy. In this discussion two main streams emerged. On one site were the ‘Conservatives’. They strived for limiting the artistic expansion to works dealing with religion and war and furthermore they opted for a rigorous censorship.