One of the only stateside entities trying to document these sounds is record label Kota Tones. Created toward the end of 2023 ...

Michael Shayan’s show, in which he plays his own mother as she celebrates the Iranian New Year, has much akin to stand-up ...

Persian New Zealander Marjan Nelson traces the roots of Persian music in this episode of Postcards. As a child growing up in ...

A priceless piece of Frank Sinatra’s personal instrument collection has found a new home at UCLA. A 92-key historic ...

Córdoba Music Group LLC (Córdoba), a manufacturer of musical instruments based in California, has agreed to pay $41,591 to settle its civil ...

All music events in southwest Iran have been cancelled after they were blamed for causing drought in the region.

Iran needs to reach an understanding over its atomic activity with the administration of Donald Trump in order to avoid being dragged into another military conflict in the Middle East, ...

Nightly News anchor Lester Holt pressed Iran’s leader in Tehran about whether he was willing to promise there would be no attempt on the life of the president-elect. IE 11 is not supported.

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(In theaters) 4 out of 5 THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG: That odd title is an allusion to the suffocating results of the strict Muslim regime in Iran. It refers to a species ... an advocacy group, so the ...

Israeli security officials have warned that a change in the regional strategic situation could push Iran to take "extreme" steps against Israel in the near-future. IDF Chief of Staff Herzli Halevi ...

Iran faces a tough year of confrontation with the incoming Trump administration while holding an exceptionally weak hand after 2024 left it with an acute economic crisis at home and setbacks in ...