FILE - In this March 21, 2001 file photo Iranian pop star Googoosh performs during a concert in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Googoosh has released a video that addresses homosexual love, a major gesture by one of the country's top cultural figures in exile, causing shockwaves in the Islamic republic. Googoosh sings "don’t tell me to stop loving: you can’t do that and I can’t either." Googoosh was Iran's first pop diva, though the 1979 revolution ended her live singing career for two decades until she immigrated to the West. Navid Akhavan, an Iranian-born German who wrote and directed the video for Googoosh’s song “Behesht” (Heaven), said it has been viewed by more than a million Iranians online or via illegal satellite channels since its Valentine’s Day release. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
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