Scott Simon talks with author Azar Nafisi about the movie adaptation of her bestselling book Reading Lolita in Tehran.

Iranian-American writer Azar Nafisi is the central figure of Eran Riklis’s adaptation of her memoir, “Reading Lolita in ...

A film adaptation of Azar Nafisi’s celebrated memoir of teaching literature in a repressive Iran suggests that the story ...

Iranian doc 'An Eye for an Eye,' about a woman who killed her husband in self-defense is set for an Oscar-qualifying U.S.

Shahrnush Parsipur, the Iranian novelist whose work transformed the female experience, history and magical realism into acts ...

The U.S. military shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones Friday that were heading toward the Strait of Hormuz and posed an imminent threat to maritime traffic, according to the U.S. Central ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that the Iranian economy was nearing a breaking point, while announcing that the U.S. had seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets. "We ...

The U.S. military carried out another round of strikes on Iran, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday, another challenge to a shaky ceasefire between the two countries. The official ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. forces fired on and disabled two Iranian oil tankers on Friday after exchanging fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz overnight. The United Arab ...

James LaPorta is the national security coordinating producer for the CBS News' Washington bureau. He is a former U.S. Marine veteran infantryman and veteran of the Afghanistan war. Washington — Three ...

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The comedian, who claimed the No. 1 special on all platforms last year, has long played his dual cultures for laughs. But as the conflict gets deadly serious, he says what the world needs now, more ...