Directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni bring a measured hand to "Cutting Through Rocks," their debut documentary about the first councilwoman in a rural Iranian village. The film's irascible but ...

Sara Shahverdi was the first elected Iranian councilwoman in her village, Cutting Through Rocks documents how she uses her ...

Iranian stuntwoman Nasrin Teymouri directs and trains Iran's first female stunt team, which has nearly 20 female students of ...

In one-man show at Chicago Shakespeare, writer-performer Michael Shayan embodies his Jewish Iranian mother and keeps the ...

Iran police arrested two young women after a video published showed them dancing without adhering to the country's strict ...

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on Thursday called for an "end" to the Islamic republic and urged human rights to be a precondition of any negotiation with Tehran as she addressed ...

Royal Shakespeare Company partners with iNK Stories on 'Lili,' a neo-noir video game set in Iran that reimagines Lady Macbeth ...

The two hanging-judges, Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh, were integral parts of a network of criminal clerics at the heart ...

The 41st edition of the Sundance Film Festival returns to Park City and Salt Lake City in Utah, with world premiere ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

Carter’s advisors viewed Khomeini as a stabilizing figure and an ally to American interests — a catastrophic misjudgment.” ...

Russia launched a widespread drone and missile attack on Ukraine early Saturday, killing at least three people in the capitol ...