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Iran's acclaimed dissident director Jafar Panahi first met his Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian in prison in 2022. Their humanist ideals made them fast friends during the seven months ...

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Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian has been arrested in Iran after speaking out against the regime (Picture: Neon) Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated co-screenwriter of It Was Just An ...

One of the screenwriters of an Oscar-nominated film has been arrested in Tehran days after signing a statement condemning Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his regime's violent crackdown on ...

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Hollywood meets Tehran drama as off-screen tensions are flaring as Mehdi Mahmoudian, the co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated hit ‘It Was Just An Accident’, finds himself behind bars in Iran.

Mehdi Mahmoudian detained after signing statement condemning Iran’s supreme leader for recent bloodshed A co-writer of Oscar-nominated film It Was Just an Accident has been arrested in Tehran just ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, who co-wrote "It Was Just an Accident," was taken into custody in Tehran for signing a statement condemning the actions of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khameni. Shania Russell is a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated co-screenwriter of Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, was arrested in Tehran yesterday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated It Was Just an Accident co-writer, has been arrested in Iran for speaking out against the ...