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19-year-old Amir Darabi at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

An Iranian piano prodigy. A big dream. And an arduous visa process.

September 26, 2017Music

Amir Darabi was a child prodigy. He started playing the piano when he was 3 years old. Later, he felt there wasn’t enough competition in Iran. But for an Iranian, getting to the US is a Herculean task.

Seven year old Teija's father is stuck in Iran due to the travel ban. She holds a sign during a protest at Los Angeles International Airport.

Two brothers, one in Iran and another in California, say the US travel ban has thrown their family for a loop

January 31, 2017Conflict

Negin Farsad's new book is called "How To Make White People Laugh."

This Iranian American comic is facing down some of her toughest critics: Fellow Muslims

June 2, 2016Books

Women gaze at jewelery displayed at an international fair in Tehran.

Crystal meth, skinny jeans and underground bloggers — it’s the Iran you never see

September 4, 2014Books

Iranian poet Simin Behbahani speaks at the "Yes to peace, No to war" conference in Tehran on November 19, 2007.

Remembering a fearless poet known as ‘Iran’s Lioness’

August 19, 2014Culture

The US and Iran part I – the 1953 coup

January 15, 2014Global Politics

In Part One, The World’s Jeb Sharp has a look at how Washington changed the destiny of another country.

Did he or didn’t he accept the Holocaust? You decide

September 26, 2013Global Politics

Some say Iran’s president took a very symbolic step toward accepting the reality of the holocaust in an interview with CNN. Holocaust researcher Deborah Lipstadt doubts it.

Iranian-Jewish minority Member of Parliament, Siamak Moreh Sedgh, poses for a photograph in front of a banner for the 2012 parliamentary elections.

Why is Iran’s president traveling with his country’s one Jewish lawmaker?

September 25, 2013Global Politics

Iran reserves one seat in its parliament for a representative of its Jewish minority. And Iran’s only Jewish lawmaker has travelled to New York this week with the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani. Anchor Marco Werman talks with reporter Saeed Kamali Dehghan. He covers Iran for The Guardian.