Filmmaker Mohsen Amiryousefi dedicated his unlicensed film "The Curse of the Ban" to those killed in the Dey uprising and to Iran's banned films, ahead of its world premiere at the London Film Festival.
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, a professor of political geography and researcher of the borders and islands of Iran in the Persian Gulf, died on Thursday 15 October in London at the age of 80 after a period of illness.
A copy of Bahman Mohasses's sculpture "Musician Faun", which Empress Farah Pahlavi commissioned for Tehran's City Theatre, has gone on show in London after 46 years.
The band Palet has cancelled its entire nationwide concert tour in Iran after its female musician was not allowed to perform in some cities.
Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi said his next film is set in Tehran and in Persian, but that he will make it outside Iran because of compulsory hijab and the official permit system.
