Mehdi Khalaji is a Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Mehdi Yarrahi, an Iranian singer and musician known for his song encouraging women to remove their hijabs, was lashed 74 times as part of his punishment for supporting the protests that swept the ...

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Mehdi Yarrahi, an Iranian musician known for protest songs that call out his country’s strict dress codes for women, was given 74 lashes as part of a punishment. His lawyer, Zahra Minuei ...

Mehdi Yarrahi's 2022 song "Soroode Zan" (Woman's Anthem) also became a protest anthem. A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that ...

A series of images posted by Ibrahim Khairat, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Special Envoy to Myanmar, has unintentionally revealed troubling associations during his recent visit to ...

March 6 (UPI) --Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the Middle Eastern country's draconian hijab laws, his lawyer ...

Mehdi Yarahi was flogged on Wednesday, his lawyer Zahra Minuei wrote on the social platform X. Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency, quoting an anonymous official, said the sentence was for him ...

Ash, who opens up about his musical evolution, the importance of his heritage, and his recent success with ’On My Mind’, ...