Iran’s rial slid further Monday to a new record low of more than 1.3 million to the U.S. dollar, deepening the currency’s ...

This was a cinematic year of vampires, clones, restless mothers, maybe-ETs and Leonardo DiCaprio struggling to remember complex revolutionary passwords. Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very bes ...

Sam Asghari is Playgirl’s latest cover star, posing shirtless — and, at times, pantsless — for a racy spread in the ...

Galvanized by the movement that emerged after the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022, more and more filmmakers are dating to shoot outside any official framework. In a country where film ...

I’m not going to lie: 2025 was not a year that’s easy to put a rosy spin on, even in the introductory blurb to a list of the ...

The Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced the Iranian director in absentia. Panahi won the prestigeous Palme d'Or for best film with his highly political piece "It Was Just an Accident." This is not ...

For decades now, Iranian cinema has regularly been making news. This year, the Palme d’Or at Cannes went to Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” and there’s little doubt the film will secure at ...

There are a number of great movies streaming for free with ads on YouTube right now. The platform’s November options include two of the greatest romance films of the 1990s, as well as one of the best ...

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This series follows a tight-knit group of Persian friends who have traded Beverly Hills for suburban life in the Valley. Rooted in their culture that values family, friendships and loyalty above ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official and a private maritime risk group said, ...

Shadi Rouhshahbaz was a Women Peacemaker Fellow at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, the University of San Diego (2023-2024). She received funding from this fellowship to conduct research on ...