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U.S. musicians sing support for Iranian protesters

CAIRO - They wouldn’t be allowed to perform in Iran, but singers Joan Baez and Jon Bon Jovi are showing their support for protesters.

In videos carried on YouTube, the artists perform songs — with a few lines in Farsi — that call for peace.

Bon Jovi sings “Stand By Me” alongside Armenian-Iranian pop star Andy Madadian. The New Jersey rocker adds, in surprisingly good Farsi, the line: “Hand in hand, with one voice, you and me, countryman, your pain, my pain, be with me.”

Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora provides the licks in the June 24-dated video, which opens with an image of Bon Jovi holding a sign that reads “We are all one” in Farsi.

A comment posted to Bon Jovi’s Web site Saturday thanked him for the performance, adding hopes that Bon Jovi would “be the first legendary American singer who will perform in Iran ... one day in the near future.”

Folk singer and activist Joan Baez’s version of “We Shall Overcome” includes a portion in Farsi. Strumming an acoustic guitar in her ki



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