For nearly two-and-a-half decades before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the boundary-pushing artist captivated audiences in Iran with daring performances and bold style choices, writing in her memoir ...

Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan is under fire for allegedly accepting to be a jury member of Iran's government-run Fajr Film Festival.

Tehran's schools were closed Tuesday for at least four days due to severe air pollution. The smog is mostly caused by heavy traffic due to millions of fuel-burning cars, motorbikes and factory ...

The execution was carried out in the town of Bastam. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

How accurate is Prisoner 951 to the true story? And, where is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe now? Here's the true story that ...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 's long imprisonment has captured global attention and has now been brought to the screen in the ...

The ordeal of British-Iranian citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family has been made into a television drama. Grace ...

Thousands of Iranian protesters were arrested in the months after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, following her arrest for ...

Paniz Faryoussefi, who made history last week as the first woman to conduct the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, says she hopes her ...

This is where we start Prisoner 951, the BBC’s new dramatisation of her story. For six years, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was one of ...

Ratcliffe's imprisonment in Iran is the subject of the BBC's latest factual drama Prisoner 951, but where is she now?

The death penalty is deeply embedded within sociological and sociolegal structures of power that shape its justification, ...