Good news from Iran is hard to come by, a situation that has prevailed since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. But 2026 has marked a new nadir for one of the world’s oldest civilizations, with the ...

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Bahar Movahed is a 21st-first century renaissance artist. She’s a cartoonist, a classical Persian singer and a full-time practicing orthodontist. Movahed said she never felt she had to choose between ...