I did it for the people,’ says Farbod Mehr, of song drawing lyrics from the work of revolutionary 20th-century poet Aref Qazvini ...

In the 1950s, Younes Dardashti, a Jewish man from Tehran’s Jewish ghetto, became one of Iran’s most celebrated singers. As the country underwent rapid secularization under the Shah, Jewish communities ...

A Persian-language bhajan to Lord Shiva by an Iranian singer has gone viral in India, sparking renewed interest in centuries-old cultural links between India and Iran. The song’s popularity comes amid ...