Shahrzad, a medical student, and Farhad, a journalist, often meet at the Cafe Naderi, a hub for intellectuals in the city. It was a defining moment in Iran’s modern history, the reverberations of which are still felt today. That coup, engineered by the CIA and British intelligence to safeguard the west’s oil interests, consolidated the shah’s rule until the 1979 Islamic revolution. Photograph: Amirhossein Shojaee/Īnd out of a depiction of Iran under the late shah’s despotic rule comes a drama that draws many parallels to politics in the country today.ĭirected by Hasan Fathi and written jointly with playwright and university professor Naghmeh Samini, Shahrzad is the story of a love broken apart by events in the aftermath of the 1953 coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq. In the TV drama, Shahrzad is forced to marry against her wishes.
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