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December 17, 2017

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By Bill Whitaker, Aliza Chasan, Rome Hartman, Matt

By Bill Whitaker, Aliza Chasan, Rome Hartman, Matthew Riley
May 24, 2026 (CBS News 60 Minutes) - Payam Khastkhodaei thought it was the biggest achievement in the world when he placed second in a state-level piano competition. Then his students started sweeping competitions across the United States.

The 32-year-old son of Iranian immigrants has come up with a new method of teaching that has students loving their piano lessons and performing at high levels. Khastkhodaei says his students have higher success rates and are learning more quickly than students learning piano via traditional methods.
"Our students don't just learn piano, they love piano," Khastkhodaei said. "And that's one of the biggest keys to it."

The Payam Method is spreading thanks, in part, to Hadi Partovi, the father of one of Khastkhodaei's students and the co-founder and CEO of code.org. Partovi sees a lot of parallels between his platform, which has been used to teach coding to hundreds of millions of students, and the Payam Method.
"One is, we don't teach coding with ones and zeros or, you know, angle brackets and semicolons. We teach it with blocks and dragging and dropping to make it easier," Partovi said. "Similarly, Payam Music teaches music starting with ABCs and 123s before you learn the code of how music is written."

Partovi is now CEO of Payam Music, with the goal of taking the tiny school, now with just a few hundred students, national.

@payammusic @codeorg @hadipartovi @dariuspartovi @60minutes @payamkhodaei_

Artist Afsoon (@afsoonafsoonagain) walks us throug

Artist Afsoon (@afsoonafsoonagain) walks us through the inspirations, techniques, and stories behind her new exhibition, Happenstance, at the Art Workers’ Guild in Bloomsbury.
Afsoon works across printmaking, collage, photography, and painting, bringing together memory, image, text, and fragments of Iranian cultural history in a visual language.
Set within the Art Workers’ Guild, founded in 1884, the exhibition presents Afsoon’s intimate, handmade works in one of London’s most storied venues for art, craft, and design.
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#kayhanlife #afsoon #happenstance #artworkersguild #artexibition

Members of the Iranian diaspora gathered in Brisba

Members of the Iranian diaspora gathered in Brisbane, Australia, for a rally expressing solidarity with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and voicing strong opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

May 24 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers appearing on Sun

May 24 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers appearing on Sunday morning talk shows split sharply over a potential deal to end the Iran war, with Republicans mostly backing the publicly reported contours of an agreement being negotiated by President Donald Trump and Democrats dismissing it as accomplishing little.

⋅ Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the reported outlines of a deal sounded like little more than “the pre-war status quo” with Iran. “I think this was a blunder,” Van Hollen said on the “Fox News Sunday” program. “When you’re digging a hole, you should stop digging, and that sounds like maybe what we’re doing finally.”

⋅ Representative Mike Lawler, a New York Republican who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, praised Trump’s approach to talks with Iran. “I think on the whole what the administration has been able to do for the first time in 47 years is force the remnants of this regime into a negotiation, a real negotiation,” Lawler said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

⋅ Senator Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, said Trump was being “played as a fool” in negotiations. “He’s got us in a situation that’s worse than it was before, a more extreme regime,” Booker told CNN’s “State of the Union” show. “(The) Strait of Hormuz now is a leveraging point for them. This weak nation has put America in a stalemate.”

⋅ Republican Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee said any deal will have “strict” terms to ensure that Iran has no path to a nuclear weapon. “I think they’ll be very enforceable,” Hagerty told “Sunday Briefing” on Fox News. “And remember … President Trump has used military force to basically annihilate the economic, technological, and military capacity of the Iranian regime. They’re in a fundamentally different place.”

Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who often criticizes Trump, suggested on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the reported details represent a shift in the administration’s stance.

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By Jasper Ward, Asif Shahzad and Akanksha Khushi W

By Jasper Ward, Asif Shahzad and Akanksha Khushi
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, May 24 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he had told his representatives not to rush into any deal with Iran, appearing to dampen hopes of an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war that had been raised by both sides a day earlier.

The U.S. blockade on Iranian ships on the Strait of Hormuz would “remain in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed”, Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Negotiations were progressing and the U.S. relationship with Iran had become more professional and productive, he said. But he added: “Both sides must take their time and get it right. There can be no mistakes!”

A day earlier, Trump said Washington and Iran had “largely negotiated” a memorandum of understanding on a peace deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which before the conflict carried one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments.

Trump has repeatedly played up the prospect of an agreement to end the war that the U.S. and Israel started on February 28, so far without success.

It was not clear whether the agreement he was referring to on Sunday was the initial memorandum of understanding that has been under discussion, or a much more challenging broad peace settlement, likely to take much longer.

The two sides remain at odds over numerous difficult issues, such as Iran‘s nuclear ambitions and Tehran’s demands for the lifting of sanctions and the release of tens of billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenues frozen in foreign banks.

DUBAI, May 24 (Reuters) – Iran executed one person

DUBAI, May 24 (Reuters) – Iran executed one person for charges related to sending information to the U.S. and Israel during the war, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported on Sunday.

The individual, identified as Mojtaba Kian, was sending data about Iran‘s defense industry to “the enemy”, according to the news agency.

(Reporting by Elwely Elwelly; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

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