Marzieh was the great diva of Persian traditional song who was silenced after the Islamic Revolution in 1979 but who re-emerged years later outside Iran as a singer and a highly public supporter ...

Marzieh was effectively silenced. For 15 years, any sort of musical continuity in her life was ruptured and she lived between Tehran's wealthy Niavaran district, close to the Shah's last residence ...

Exiled Iranian singer Ashraf-o-Sadat Mortezai, known to her fans as Marzieh, died on October 13 in Paris at the age of 85, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. Her granddaughter, Janan Khoram, told Radio ...