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The Happy Birthday song has the audio icon as well, the others do not, but are simply children's rhymes or poems.

Iranian Historical & Cultural Information Center. An extremely comprehensive website dedicated to Iran, its history, art and culture, current news and media as well as many other relevant topics a student might be interested in.

Great introduction to Persian at the beginning level as well as to more advanced levels. It offers a variety of different lessons that slowly demonstrate spelling, pronunciation, and many other things.

A tour across Europe by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra had the faint echo of an earlier era of cultural diplomacy.

A great study website that offers online grammar pages as well as vocabulary lists, cultural information videos and articles, quizzes, and other useful inks.

An amazing philosophical poem by Persian poet (philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, any many other titles) Omar Khayyam, written in English and Persian in the above link.

Article from the The International about the challenges and successes of the Iranian film industry.

I love Iranian films. I think this article picked up on many key struggles that Iranian filmmakers face. Even though the picture shows pirated movies being sold, the article does not discuss the implications it has on filmmakers or even what it says about the people in Iran who buy them. From what I have read from other articles, it seems as though Iranian films are more acclaimed in Western countries- not only because of censorship laws but the Iranian public's choice of what movies to watch. TASTE OF CHERRY, mentioned in the article, is one of my favorite films.