November 8, 2024 | Vol. 53, Issue 21

The only bilingual Chinese-English Newspaper in New England

Independent Iranians of Boston Keeping Protests Alive for Regime Change in Homeland

On a brisk Saturday afternoon, more than three dozen local Iranian Americans and their allies gathered in front of Trinity Church in Copley Square for another protest against atrocities committed by the Iranian government. Some draped themselves in the flag of the old Iranian government, symbolizing better times in their country, while others carried placards portraying victims who have been executed for peacefully protesting against the government’s human rights violations. “Zan. Zendegi. Azadi,’’ they shouted in Farsi, which translates to […]

Through Farsi, Iranian-American Grocer and Newly Settled Afghan Refugees in Belmont Find Common Ground

Zohreh Beheshti, an Iranian immigrant who came to the United States in 1998, has become a success story in the Massachusetts town of Belmont. She runs Super Vanak, a small grocery store she started with her husband in March 2021. She said she opened the store because there were no other Iranian grocer nearby to serve the large Iranian population who want to get food from their homeland. What she did not anticipate was the number of Afghan immigrants from […]

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