Iranian rockband covers “Brick in the Wall” with Roger Water’s blessing.

Canada-based Iranian rock band Blurred Vision has updated the famous Pink Floyd protest anthem “Another Brick in the Wall” to target the theocratic government of Iran. Their otherwise faithful cover changes the song’s famous chant to “Hey Ayatollah, leave those kids alone.” With the help of Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami, Blurred Vision also produced a music video to channel the song’s anti-authoritarian anger against the oppressive Iranian regime. The video, interspliced with footage from the recent “green movement” protests, shows an Iranian woman fleeing security forces and a robed, bearded ayatollah.
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The young musicians say they sought—and received—the approval of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters to cover the song. “From here on in, that version of the song is yours,” he told them. Though Waters probably never intended his song to be about Iran, he may have had the country in the back of his mind when he wrote it— “Another Brick in the Wall” was released November 30 1979, eight months after the Iranian revolution and only three weeks after the U.S. embassy hostage crisis began.