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Mohammad Reza Shajarian may be the most famous singer in all of Iran. He's also Iran's most famous protest singer — even though, strictly speaking, his music doesn't directly protest the government at ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Mohammad Reza Shajarian, who revived Iranian classical music and became a symbol for the opposition after a wave of unrest in 2009, has died in a Tehran hospital at the age of 80, ...

When Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iran’s most celebrated contemporary singer, threw his widespread popularity behind pro-democracy protesters in 2009, he was neither arrested nor forced to flee the ...

To Iranians at home and abroad, the death of the country’s most revered classical music singer, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, reverberated like the death of a rock or pop star in the West. After learning ...

A fan cries as she shows an image of the nation's famous singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian on her phone outside the Jam Hospital where Shajarian has died of cancer at the age of 80, in Tehran Iran, ...

When protests broke out in Iran in 2009 over the fraudulent presidential election, one of the country’s leading artists stood up against the regime and its violent repression of demonstrators.

Mohammad-Reza Shajarian performs at the Durham Performing Arts Center Saturday, April 28, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5–$55. See Duke Performances. Amir Rezvani pauses a moment before he can talk about it.

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Iran’s greatest living musician and artist, died in Tehran on Thursday at the age of 80, sparking sadness and anger among his fellow Iranians, including millions scattered ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, an Iranian master singer of traditional Persian music, known for supporting a 2009 protest movement, died at 80. Remembering Iranian singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian (SOUNDBITE ...

A revered singer of Iran has died. Mohammad Reza Shajarian was 80 and so famous in Iran, he was untouchable even by the authoritarian government. To protest a disputed election in 2009, he asked the ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, an Iranian master singer of traditional Persian music, known for supporting a 2009 protest movement, died at 80. A revered singer of Iran has died. Mohammad Reza Shajarian was ...