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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 474

MEHDI FATTAHI

Visitors look at a painting by the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec while visiting an exhibition titled Eye to Eye which showcases over 120 works by modern world artists as well as Iranian painters at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, in Tehran, November 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 22, 2024, 6:09 pm
Young Iranians delighted as long-hidden vast Western art collection goes on display
Works by Monet, Warhol and others, worth billions, reemerge amid tensions with US, drawing crowds of headscarf-less women surprised such art can be seen without going abroad
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Jon Gambrell
Iranian carpet shop owner Ali Faez works at his shop at the traditional bazaar of the city of Kashan, about 152 miles (245 km) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 4, 2024, 10:20 am
Sanctions, hobbled economy pull rug out from under Iran’s traditional carpet weavers
Slump in high-value tourists additionally reduces trade, with those who do visit Iran also unable to use international credit cards
By MEHDI FATTAHI
A visitor looks at artworks by the American artist Sol Lewitt while visiting a 19th- and 20th-century American and European minimalist and conceptual masterpieces show at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 2, 2022. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
August 11, 2022, 10:38 am
Tehran unveils Western art masterpieces hidden for decades after Islamic Revolution
Works by Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd and Sol Lewitt among dozens of items that were stored away in 1979 but have gradually resurfaced, generating thriving interest
By Nasser Karimi and MEHDI FATTAHI
Shiite Muslim men beat themselves with knives attached to chains during a procession to mark Ashura, three days ahead of the festival, in a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 5, 2022. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
August 8, 2022, 5:19 pm
Shiite Muslims in Middle East mark solemn holy day of Ashura
Festival marks the 7th-century death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein; Shiites to hold mourning ceremonies across the region, including mass self-flagellations
By MEHDI FATTAHI
Ali Hedieloo takes a photo of his product to post on social media at his furniture workshop in the southern suburbs of Tehran, Iran, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 4, 2021, 7:24 pm
New legislation in Iran stokes fears of even further restricted internet
Tehran moved last week toward further government control of Instagram and other apps with draft bill that some worry could wipe out their livelihoods
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Isabel Debre
Former Iranian Central Bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati, a candidate in Iran's upcoming presidential election, poses for a photo at his office in Tehran, Iran, June 9, 2021. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
June 9, 2021, 9:07 pm
Iran presidential candidate says he’s willing to meet Biden
But former Iranian Central Bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati stresses that a US return to nuclear deal is key, and that so far, Washington hasn’t shown ‘anything serious’ yet
By MEHDI FATTAHI
People sit in their cars watching a movie at a new drive-in cinema at a parking lot in the Iranian capital of Tehran, as regular theaters are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, May 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 5, 2020, 10:05 am
Coronavirus brings back long-banned drive-in movies to Iran
Once decried by religious hardliners, parking-lot screenings make comeback as other entertainment venues remain closed to Iranians due to pandemic
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Nasser Karimi
Pedestrians walk past banners of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a US drone attack on Friday, in Tajrish square in northern Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 10, 2020, 8:14 am
On the streets of Tehran, relief for now at no wider conflict
As state media hails attack on US forces, there are also mixed feelings on how far nation should go to avenge killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Aya Batrawy
In this photo released on Nov. 4, 2019, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the organization, speaks at a news conference after visiting Natanz enrichment facility, in central Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)
November 11, 2019, 1:10 pm
Iran enriching 12 times as much uranium now Fordo restarted, nuclear head says
Salehi says production of low-enriched uranium soaring after operations at underground site resumed; Rouhani: Saving nuke deal could open up international arms sales
By MEHDI FATTAHI, Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
Posters adorn a corridor of the former US Embassy in Tehran, now partly a museum, in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 26, 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
October 31, 2019, 3:13 pm
Frozen in time, US embassy a monument to Iran hostage crisis
Tehran complex is now partly a museum and a space for student groups, some of whom leave anti-American graffiti on its walls
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Jon Gambrell
Iranian women cheer during a soccer match between their national team and Cambodia in the 2022 World Cup qualifier at the Azadi (Freedom) Stadium in Tehran, Iran, October 10, 2019. (AP Photo/ Vahid Salemi)
October 10, 2019, 6:45 pm
Women attend soccer match in Iran for first time in decades
After pressure from FIFA, 4,000 female fans of the national team are allowed into stadium for game vs. Cambodia: ‘It’s an extraordinary feeling’
By Amir Vahdat and MEHDI FATTAHI
A speedboat of Iran's Revolutionary Guard trains a weapon toward the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, July 21, 2019. (Morteza Akhoondi/Tasnim News Agency via AP)
August 4, 2019, 1:28 pm
Iran seizes third foreign tanker, says it was carrying ‘smuggled fuel’
Iranian media reports 7 crew members aboard ship captured Wednesday have been arrested; Revolutionary Guards commander says vessel was bringing fuel to Arab Gulf states
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Aya Batrawy
An Iranian woman works on her cell phone while spending an afternoon on steps outside of a shopping mall in northern Tehran, Iran, July 2, 2019 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
July 26, 2019, 10:42 am
Iranians manage to surf the web despite tide of censorship
Cat-and-mouse game sees internet users skirt barriers piled on by both clerically-led government US sanctions
By MEHDI FATTAHI
Pedestrians and drivers make their way through a street in downtown Tehran, Iran, May 18, 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
May 19, 2019, 9:41 am
In Iran, economic struggles trump fears of US confrontation
Iranians would rather see tensions with Washington resolved through negotiations, but are prepared to fight if war breaks out
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Nasser Karimi
This frame grab from an August 8, 2018, video provided by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, shows an aerial view of a massive hole caused by drought and excessive water pumping in Kabudarahang, in Hamadan province, in western Iran. (ISNA via AP)
January 24, 2019, 6:08 pm
Drought-stricken, parched Iran is sinking – literally
Massive sinkholes around Tehran are threatening vital infrastructure, including the capital’s international airport
By MEHDI FATTAHI
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