and stoking mass migration from Iran’s countryside to its cities. Image Visitors at the Si-o-Se Pol bridge in Isfahan. The government’s diversion of the Zayanderud River led tens of thousands ...

which came from the conservative countryside and the seminaries of the holy city of Qum. Efforts by moderates to modernize some of Iran's institutions in the late 1990s were consistently derailed ...

Although Iran boasts a hundred years of filmmaking ... and the gorgeous shots of the vast Iranian countryside are only part of the movie's strong environmental message. Hamid Dabashi, a Columbia ...