Leila Hatami in trouble for picture from Cannes
May 17, 2014
Persian News Robot, Kodoom.com: Leila Hatami, famed Iranian actress of the Oscar winner "A Separation" was pictured in a partial head scarf and long dresses in the opening ceremonies of [http://www.fe...
Iranian-born former crossdresser in California's Big Sur
Apr 26, 2014
[http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/etc/outside/a-child-crossdresser-brave-boston-cop-and-surprise-olympian-take/article_182ae6f0-cb26-11e3-ba20-001a4bcf6878.html Monterey County Weekly] reports of a...
Iranian youth: Masters of double life (Pictures)
Apr 20, 2014
The 1989 crack down on liberal reforms in Iran undoubtedly led Iranian youth to crawl into underground scenes. Much of Iran’s urban youth are living a double life today, caught in the middle of a cult...
Nazanin Afshin-Jam is now a mother (Pictures)
Apr 12, 2013
Iranian-born Canadian human rights activist and former Miss World Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam has posted pictures of her newborn baby boy, Kian, on her Facebook page.
She writes: "My precious little...
Iranian girls go topless to protest Hijab (video, 18+)
March 5, 2013
(Video with adult content): On March 2, 2013, in Stockholm, Sweden, during "Against the Veil (hijab)" campaign two Iranian women went from Chador (veil) to topless. The event was organized by the Comm...
Iranian-born Laleh named Sweden's Artist of the Year (video)
Jan 21, 2013
[http://laleh.se/ Laleh] is possibly Sweden’s best-kept musical secret. Laleh Pourkarim, of Iranian descent, has earned several Swedish Grammys: Artist of the Year, Newcomer and the Producer of the Ye...
Hawaiian songwriter Kawehi sings NEDA for Iran
Jan 18, 2013
Performed by Hawaiian singer-songwriter Kawehi and produced by Paul Wight, NEDA is one of the pieces of Kawehi's Kickstarter-funded album VOX. Neda is inspired by Neda Agha-Soltan who died by a fatal ...
New murder may be linked to Gelareh Bagherzadeh's Killing
Jan 13, 2013
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/18/coty-beavers-murder-houston-gelareh-bagherzadeh_n_2154538.html#slide=1773246 Huffington Post] reports that ten months after Gelareh Bagherzadeh's mysterious m...
Mercedes in bikini: Pride or shame for Iranian-American woman?
Dec 15, 2012
Finally American TV is not casting Iranians as violent terrorists thanks to "Shahs of Sunset," BRAVO's new reality TV series about hedonistic lifestyles of wealthy Iranian Americans. This week's pools...
"Underground" women vocalists on a Tehran "rooftop" (videos)
Dec 10, 2012
Two underground music videos performed by women in Tehran, one from a young woman performing a Googoosh song in a private party, and another showing sisters Marjan and Mahsa Vahdat on a rooftop in Teh...