Tag: Tehran

Syrian town that was center of Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’ looks ahead

SAYEDA ZAINAB, Syria —  In the shadow of the gold-domed Sayeda Zainab shrine, six miles south of Damascus, lie the abandoned remains of what was once the de facto…

Journalist Cecilia Sala en route to Italy after release from Tehran prison

A plane carrying journalist Cecilia Sala has left Tehran and will soon arrive back in Italy, Italian authorities announced on Wednesday. Sala had been held in the Iranian…

Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof on fleeing Iran after making a movie in secret • FRANCE 24 English

In this arts24 episode, we talk to fugitive director Mohammad Rasoulof about his powerful Iranian film “the Seed of the Sacred Fig”, a brazen and startling picture about…