Farghadani was arrested by intelligence agents from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard after attempting to hang one of her artworks on Tehran’s Pasteur Avenue wall, near the presidential palace. Her lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, confirmed her sentence on June 10 via X, stating, “My
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose feature film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is set to premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival this month, has been sentenced to eight years in prison, flogging, a fine, and property confiscation, as confirmed by
Local media reported on April 24 that an Iranian court has handed down a death sentence to a well-known rapper who has been imprisoned for over a year and a half. His alleged crime is supporting nationwide protests ignited by the death
Government officials in Iran have expressed objections to the British Museum’s plan to loan the Cyrus Cylinder, one of its significant antiquities, to a library in Jerusalem later this year. Hadi Mirzaei, Iran’s Director General of the general office of museums, has
Archaeologists in northern Türkiye have unearthed structures and religious artifacts linked to the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, marking their first appearance in Anatolian archaeology. Excavations were unearthed in the previous years at Oluz Hoyuk in Amasya province, where pottery fragments and
Filmmakers and movie festival organizers from around the world have called on Iranian authorities to drop all charges against two Iranian film directors and lift their travel ban. Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha had planned to travel to Paris in September for
One of Iran’s most important filmmakers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made
Iran has received thousands of Achaemenid-era clay tablets from the United States in the fifth such instalment, following a drawn-out legal effort to repatriate the antiquities. “After the two-year follow-up of the government… the Achaemenid tablets confiscated by the American government were
The first production co-directed by Iranian and Israeli filmmakers had to be shot in secret to prevent possible interference by Tehran, directors Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv told Reuters on Sunday. “Tatami”, a tense thriller centred on a world judo championship,
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