Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: The most famous face of Iranian comedy has courted controversy again by ridiculing the government's efforts to help the victims of the flood that struck more than 25 provinces and resulted in dozens of deaths. Nothing is more painful for the people of the country than seeing their leaders in wet pants, said Mehran ...

Financial Tribune- The comedy 5 PM written and directed by comedian, actor, director and musician Mehran Modiri set some new records at the box office on its opening day. Selling over 7 billion rials ($185,000) on Friday in 50 cinemas, the movie crossed the previous record-holder Salaam Mumbai by Qorban Mohammadpour, which took in $155,000 on its ...

Al-Monitor- Prominent Iranian comedian, actor and television director Mehran Modiri has come under harsh criticism over comments on women and divorces. In a five-minute bit during his standup comedy show that aired on state TV in December, Modiri ridiculed Iranian men who at the time of the marriage agreeto grant their wivesthe right to divorce,saying,...

Newspapers on Monday covered the remarks made by President Hassan Rouhani in an address to Iranian people in the southwestern city of Yasuj. President Rouhani announced that the countrys economic growth rate has increased to 4.4%, and also voiced his scepticism towards the US. A Parliamentary statement against the insults to President Rouhani was ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 10 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Reaction to the release of Lausanne nuclear statement continued to dominate the front pages of Iranian newspapers Sunday. Also in the news were the comments President ...

TEHRAN --Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visited Mehran Modiri, the director and actor of TV comedy series, on the set of his new serial I Was Joking in Tehran on Tuesday evening. The meeting was arranged after Zarif received an invitation from Modiri to visit the set of the series that is planned as a satire on political, social and ...