"Close-Up" (1990), crafted by the cinematic virtuoso Abbas Kiarostami, isn't just a film; it's a deeply human odyssey that resonates with the core of our existence. What elevates it to the echelons of the greatest films ever made as regarded by many, is its profound exploration of a journey that intertwines reality, identity, and the universal yearning for connection.
[A]ny regime s foreign policy is basically a continuation of its domestic policies. The Khomeinist revolution s ambition was to transform the Iranian society into a vehicle for "exporting revolution" which, as "Supreme Guide" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei often
Over the past half a century what is called “Iranology” has developed into a global industry with dozens of think-tanks, institutes, faculties and pressure groups trying to understand and explain what is going on in the Iran created by Khomerini in 1979. Patterned on Kremlinology, a bustling industry during the old War, Iranology ignored Iran’s history and culture and assumed that rather than being an epiphenomenon, like Bolshevism turned out to be, is a true and thus permanent expression of Iranian nationhood.
Twelve months after his first vintage, Mahmood Fazal is selling a shiraz inspired by a cult label in Spain, Persian poetry and the land of his ancestors.
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