Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the Oscar-nominated screenwriters of the Iranian drama It Was Just an Accident has been arrested in Tehran. The detainment ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Iranian co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated film It Was Just An Accident has been arrested in Iran for signing an open letter criticising the country’s Supreme Leader ...

Colombian authorities arrested Iranian national Jafar Tafakori, accused of running a $30,000-per-person human smuggling network into the United States. The year-long multinational investigation ...

Mahmoudian is nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay, co-written with director Jafar Panahi. Mehdi Mahmoudia, co-screenwriter behind Jafar Panahi‘s acclaimed thriller “It Was Just An Accident,” was ...