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Deep in the heart of Tehran, a Mossad agent works against the clock to carry out a top-secret mission aimed at paving the way for an IDF airstrike against an Iranian nuclear reactor.
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In the show, the streets of Tehran are actually in Athens, the Iranian-born Mossad agent is an Israeli actress with Moroccan heritage and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard henchman is played by a Jewish-Iranian expat living in Los Angeles. And that dissonance perfectly personifies the fast-paced new thriller, which blurs the traditional lines of good guys and bad guys and works to humanize the very enemy people have bee
Brave artists defy Iranian regime
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Brave artists defy Iranian regime
By Cat Woods
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Israeli singer and actress Liraz Charhiâs latest album has come at an unusually high cost â countless sleepless nights, concern about reprisals and the constant fear she was risking her collaboratorsâ lives.
To make
Zan (âWomanâ) Charhi defied the fundamentalist regime in Iran to work in secret with a group of Persian artists, many of whom were so terrified they chose to remain anonymous.
âI had this big dream to record an album with Iranian artists,â says Charhi. âI was very naive because it wasnât easy. I posted to Instagram in late 2019 that I was looking for Iranian artists to co-operate with for my new album, I got overwhelmed with messages.â