The sacred fig in Rasoulof’s exceptionally well-acted film — a multiple prize winner at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival the embattled writer-director had to flee Iran to screen, risking imprisonment and ...

From the 50th anniversary of the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festiva to Belmont World Film's Family Festival, WBUR film critic Erin Trahan rounds up the film events to check out this season.

Iran unveiled an underground missile storage facility and announced Friday that it is manufacturing “new special missiles,” ...

Iran last week launched its most extensive military exercises in decades, flying thousands of drones, parading rocket ...

Iran is set to receive a new warship and a fleet of advanced drones in the coming days, the state-run Islamic Republic News ...

Iran is reeling from a cratering economy and stinging military setbacks across its sphere of influence in the Middle East.

painted ships with new identities, faked tracking signals to disguise their locations, and took painstaking measures to avoid any trace of Iran. A collage of screenshots of email exchanges ...

Iran is at a crossroads — either embrace “realpolitik” through practical, realistic negotiations with the West or “roll the ...

Now in theaters, “ The Seed of the Sacred Fig ” follows a lawyer named Iman (Missagh Zareh), who is promoted to investigating ...

An Iranian woman tore off a cleric’s turban after he publicly berated her for not wearing a hijab in Tehran’s Mehrabad airport in an act of protest that will alarm the regime. The ...

On Chinese social media, some want Iran to go nuclear – but others think it should learn from China’s “reform and opening.” ...