After years of run-ins with the authorities, the Iranian director was forced to direct his most recent film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, remotely and in secret. But the methods are at odds with the ...

Parviz Tanavoli is a contemporary Iranian artist, best known for his bronze sculptures combining the semiotics of Arabic language with the formal language of abstract sculpture. View Parviz Tanavoli’s ...

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Reza Pahlavi is son of the last shah — and he often echoes Israeli talking points condemning “appeasement” of Iran. It’s earned him admiration from US neocons, but such belligerent talk is a deadly ...

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