The intense mutual admiration of Martin Scorsese and Jafar Panahi was evident today as the American and Iranian directors embraced at length. Panahi bowed to “a god of cinema.” Scorsese challenged ...

Running time: 105 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, smoking, strong language). In Persian with subtitles. In theaters Oct. 15. There is nothing accidental about the way Jafar Panahi makes movies. The ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been jailed, gone on hunger strike and even sold his house to pay bail – all for the right to make movies. After winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes and being selected ...

The Iranian authorities said Monday they had hanged a man they accused of spying for Israel, the latest in what is believed to be the largest wave of executions by Tehran in decades, according to ...

The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran early Sunday over its nuclear program, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as its people increasingly find themselves priced out of the food they need ...

Hundreds of Israeli citizens have received calls from Iran’s intelligence service in attempts to recruit them, the country’s police force said Saturday. “Hundreds of citizens” reported that they ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday accused the United States and Israel of committing a "grave betrayal of diplomacy" by carrying out airstrikes on Iranian cities, telling world leaders at ...

As the U.N. General Assembly met in New York, the Trump administration forbade the Iranian delegation from shopping at discount wholesalers, an apparent bid to inflame Iranian public opinion. By Ali ...

The Trump administration is blocking Iranian diplomats from accessing the “wholesale club stores” like Costco and purchasing luxury goods while in the United States, State Department spokesperson ...

NEW YORK (AP) — France announced Wednesday that it has selected the Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning drama “It Was Just an Accident” as its submission to the Academy Awards. 40 years ...

Iran has executed a man accused of spying for Israel, Iranian state media reported, after the rights group Amnesty International said the man, Babak Shahbazi, had been sentenced to death in an unfair ...