EXCLUSIVE: Amidst renewed American strikes on Iranian targets today and responses from the Islamic Republic, JD Vance kept to his schedule and showed up on Real Time with Bill Maher. Set for a sit-down interview with Mark Twain Prize winner Maher, the vice president rolled into CBS Television…

Near the end of a 90-minute press conference in which Donald Trump explained, among other things, why he thinks the current Tehran regime will behave differently, the president indicated what he would do if the deal to end the war ultimately fizzles. Already, as word of the details of the…

The Iranian football team were forced to leave the U.S. immediately after their 2-2 World Cup group stage draw with New Zealand. Iranian coach Amir Ghalenoei said U.S. officials ordered the team to leave the country after the match yesterday, and was quoted calling his team the “most oppressed…

Following a retrial for his “propaganda activity against the regime,” Tehran Revolutionary Court has upheld Jafar Panahi’s one-year prison sentence. On Sunday, the It Was Just An Accident writer/director’s attorney Mostafa Nili announced that Judge Iman Afshari rejected their objections and…

Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist, animator and Oscar-nominated director best known internationally for her 2007 biographical animated feature Persepolis and Rosamund Pike-starring film Radioactive, has died. She was 56. "Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the…

Back from the holiday vacation, Jon Stewart began his Monday night stint at The Daily Show in desperate need of “some good news.” “I need some relief. And I’ll tell you why. Because as many of you know, that big Freedom 250 concert that I’ve so been looking forward to,” he began sarcastically…

Donald Trump said that a peace agreement with Iran has been “largely negotiated” to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The president’s announcement on Saturday lacked details, and he wrote on Truth Social that it is “subject to finalization” between “the United States of America, the…

Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been been summoned for a court hearing in Iran on Wednesday as part of a retrial related to charges against him of "propaganda activity against the regime," according to local media reports. The hearing will take place close to a year after Panahi was feted with…

Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Competition in Cannes for the fifth time with French-language drama Parallel Tales starring Isabelle Huppert, Adam Bessa, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Catherine Deneuve. The Paris-set, French-language drama hits Cannes…

The Iranian revolution of 1979 saw the US-backed rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi collapse almost overnight, to be replaced with an Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The impact of the regime change was felt immediately by the filmmaking community, with the obliteration of filmfarsi…

Jon Stewart — after getting the news of the night, that he was not invited to the Met Gala, out of the way — set his sights on the continuing saga of “our situationship with Iran.” “Is it a war? Is it a ceasefire? Are we friends with bomb-ifits? I don’t know,” he quipped at the outset of…

The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) has welcomed changes to submission rules for the Best International Feature Film category of the Academy Awards which were announced on Friday, but says the process needs to be opened up further. In a game-changing shake-up of the eligibi…