Despite stark ideological differences, Iran’s Islamic regime and the Trumpist movement share similar tactics: wielding fear, relying on religious extremism, and eroding civil liberties. Both distort ...

“When I began to paint, I relied on what I knew about art in terms of sculpture ... following the brutal death of 22-year-old Jina (Mahsa) Amini in the hands of Iran’s morality police ...

"We wrote this scene before Mahsa Amini was murdered," reports Moghaddam ... However, Iran's lively art and film scene has always been a place of either subtle or open criticism of the system.