"For four days, they have had their internet cut off, they have had their electricity cut off. They are in darkness, they are ...

The 75-year-old pop star is part of a generation of Iranians in the diaspora who are watching, with bated breath, as their ...

Jan 21, 2026 KCRW’s signature music program — defying format since 1977. On today's mid-week hang, we hear Flea return to the ...

As protests continue across Iran, the regime has responded with lethal force and an internet blackout. German-Iranian artist ...

Iranian state media has aired at least 97 confessions from protesters since Dec. 28, according to the Human Rights Activists ...

Before slogans and crowds, resistance in Iran is heard. The Epic Symphony of Khorramshahr has returned, carrying grief, endurance, and defiance. Born from house-to-house resistance and loss, its sound ...

Rapper Meraj Tehrani escaped deadly protests, describing machine gun massacres and bodies left as warnings in Iran.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — He has been in exile for nearly 50 years. His father — Iran’s shah — was so widely hated ...

Iranian pop icon Googoosh says she is ‘waiting for a change of regime to happen soon’ - In 2000, Faegheh Atashin was able to leave Iran and perform in Canada, where she discovered that the decades of ...

President Donald Trump has been weighing a range of options against Iran amid the country’s crackdown on protesters that ...

Despite a ceaseless battle against government censors, he was celebrated as one of his country’s greatest auteurs, winning ...