Iranian directors Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam have received a 14-month jail sentence as well as $14,000 worth of ...

My Favourite Cake’ directors Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam receive 14-month suspended prison sentences in Iran. The film’s heroine is seen without a headscarf, and the filmmakers were accused ...

Iran’s rial currency traded at a record low against the U.S. dollar as the country returned to work after a long holiday ...

The fire festival offers a great opportunity for that. Known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi, the festival comes in the hours just before the Wednesday before Nowruz, which is the Persian New Year.

An Iranian court has handed two Iranian film directors suspended jail terms over a film that angered authorities in the ...

Iran’s rial currency is trading at 1 million to the dollar, a record low, amid growing tensions between Tehran and Washington ...

The findings of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran come after it determined last year that the country's theocracy was responsible for the ...

shows the voyage of discovery of an elderly woman in Tehran who notably appears in the film without the headscarf that is obligatory for women in Iran. The pair were sentenced to 14 months in ...

he had taken issue with hair that had escaped from her head scarf. Iranian law compelled her to wear it, but she saw the cloth as a symbol of repression. After leaving Iran, Ms. Alinejad continued ...