| Connect to share and comment |
News DeskJune 25, 2009 06:57Updated May 30, 2010 12:59
Radio free Iran
The compelling voices of Radio Iran, a talk radio station in Los Angeles.
The compelling voices of Radio Iran, a talk radio station in Los Angeles.
A supporter of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi at a rally in Tehran on June 18, 2009. The posters read, "Esteemed Ayatollah support" (front) and "My martyr brother on behalf of the Iranian nation, I'll take your vote back." (Reuters via Your View)
Events in Iran have been tumultuous and historic. The largest Iranian community in the United States is in Los Angeles, where radio station Radio Iran KIRN has a popular talk show that fields calls from Iranians still willing to share their opinions.
GlobalPost has translated some of these viewpoints from Farsi and put it together with images taken from Iran since the elections on June 12.
Read more about Iran:
How to run a protest without Twitter
Iranian rockers find their voice
Iran election: The global view
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/090624/radio-free-iran
.
-
Photo
Jaume Plensa's "Tel Aviv Man" at Art Basel, the world’s premier trade fair for leading galleries and collectors focused on modern and contemporary art.
- [/] -
Photo
The front of the Art Basel building. This year’s show attracted 303 of the world’s top galleries from 36 countries, showing the works of more than 2,500 artists. It drew more than 62,000 visitors, a new record.
- [/] -
Photo
Platform Gallery's Chen Wei and one of his "Recovery Room" series at Liste Young Artist's show. By the time the week was over he had sold more than 10 works, with prices ranging from $1,800 to nearly $3,000.
- [/] -
Photo
A performance spectator admires some of the pieces at Basel Art.
- [/] -
Photo
A performance piece at Basel Scope, done by an unidentified nearly naked man who moved in slow motion up and down the aisles dressed like a Greek version of Mars, the god of war.
- [/] -
Photo
A performance piece at Scope. The man clutched a staff, on which a plastic container for motor oil with the BP logo was impaled.
- [/] -
Photo
An installation piece at Basel Art.
- [/] -
Photo
An installation piece with paper tubes at Basel Art.
- [/] -
Photo
A gallery scene at the Scope Basel show.
- [/] -
Photo
A sculpture of Sperone Westwater Gallery's employee, Michael Short, by Evan Penny.
- [/] -
Photo
Evan Penny's sculpture of Michael Short.
- [/] -
Photo
A woman views Jaume Plensa's "Tel Aviv Man," (Study) 2010, Galerie Lelong, Paris.
- [/] -
Photo
"Medusa marinara," 1997 — a photographic representation of the Medusa in spaghetti and tomato sauce by New York-based Brazilian artist, Vic Muniz.
- [/] -
Photo
Children play around Ai Weiwei's piece, "Field," 2010.
- [/] -
Photo
Heimo Sobernig's "Black Cube" sits on display outside outside.
- [/] -
Photo
A piece by Yayoi Kusama titled "Pumkin."
- [/]
Follow us: