Iran’s greatest master of traditional music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, always avoided open clashes with his country’s ruling hard-line clerics. So it was a bombshell when Shajarian _ so revered that his audiences pelt him with roses _ demanded state radio and…

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Iran artists in tug of war with government