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Cinema

Coming soon: «Operation Epic Fail»

written by Jocelyn Daloz

At a time when the U.S. military's «excursion» into Iran is making George W. Bush look like a lucid strategist, I can already see the next Hollywood political comedy.

Cinema

Freedom through the lens of Iranian filmmakers

By Jocelyn Daloz · 23 April 2026

Before being part of the «Axis of Evil», to use the rhetoric of the Bush years, or the target of Operation Epic Fury, Iran is first and foremost a country with a culture dating back thousands of years, expressed in its deeply moving cinema.

Policy

Regimes come and go, countries stay

By Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard · 05 September 2025

The Iran-Israel crisis has revived an old Western temptation: regime change. The illusion of immediate political transformation, however, runs up against the fact that regimes come and go, while peoples, their history and culture remain.

Literature

Between Iranian and Afghan lands, the tragedy of flight

By Chelsea Rolle · September 12, 2023

The first French translation of the work of Aliyeh Ataei, Iranian writer and journalist, «La frontière des oubliés», her fifth publication, paints a picture of bitter-tasting exile in nine short stories. Chilling.

World

Nuclear weapons, the other Iranian issue that concerns us

By Matthieu Levivier · 04 February 2023

On November 22, Iran declared that it had reached an unprecedented level of uranium enrichment, an essential step towards obtaining the atomic bomb. The announcement may not have made the headlines, but it is not without repercussions for world geopolitics.