The Khorshid Orchestra in the ancient Iranian city of Isfahan has dropped all its female musicians, claiming that many audiences don’t want to see them on stage. A manager told the Bahar newspaper that excluding their current female musicians from concerts in small towns meant that the number of performers left over was increasingly […]
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad sacks only female government minister
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday dismissed his only female cabinet minister, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, after she criticized her colleagues for failing to provide funds to import vital medicines.