Mohammad Rasoulof on Escaping Iran and Why the Regime Won’t ‘Last Long’: We Can’t ‘Allow Them to Go on Holding Their People Hostage’

Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof a few days ago absconded from his country with a heavy heart after being sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court for making his latest film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” Ironically, the groundbreaking drama is centered on an investigating judge operating within the same judicial […]