Well-respected Persian music master and ethnomusicologist Dariush Safvat has passed away at the age of 85 due to natural causes. The veteran musician, Safvat, died at his home in the Iranian city of karaj on April 17, 2013. Born in 1928, Safvat received a B.A. in Law from the University of Tehran in 1953 and a Ph.D. in International Law from the ...