But on Tuesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed opposition attempts to revive mass demonstrations as doomed to fail, while members of the Iranian Parliament clamored for the two most prominent leaders of the protest movement to be executed.
If the Senate does just drop this provision again, after reviving mass attention on the Republican healthcare agenda, that could read as another, if minor, failure for them.
But at a time when the Communist Party has been avidly reviving revolutionary mass culture from the Maoist era, some critics say the sassy and startlingly individualistic performers who scored well on "Super Girl" represented something of a threat.
The allegation comes amid efforts by Iran's opposition Green movement to revive the mass protests that challenged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in 2009, which opponents say was rigged.
The new Fame revives the mass bop scene in which students spontaneously start improvising, dancing and jamming in the middle of the day through sheer life-affirming vitality and, just as before, this supremely embarrassing sequence is as unwatchable as the most explicitly violent horror film.
Yet slam has helped revive the mass appeal of an art form, investing poetry with excitement, fun and interactivity.
But public confidence is so shaken that even if the vaccine is cleared of blame, the scheme is not expected to be revived on a mass scale.In October, when free vaccine first became available, 35 people, mostly elderly, died of heart attacks after receiving shots.
It hopes that Mercedes will provide the international clout it needs, and the expertise to revive its mass-market range, which has been languishing for decades.
Hundreds of Iranians were jailed earlier this year to thwart the opposition's efforts to revive last year's mass protests in time for Feb. 11, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
