By Ruba Hattar This weekend Iran has mourned classic Persian music icon Mohammad Reza Shajarian, who passed away at the age of 80 due to cancer. Shajarian, who started his life learning how to recite the Quran went on to become a legendary composer, vocalist and master of traditional Persian music, a calligraph and a political activist. For over half a century, Shajarian embodied classical and traditional music inside and ...