Iranian Nights (1989)
by Tariq Ali and Howard Brenton
A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production, London.
with Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory.
"Iranian Nights" was a play written and produced as a direct response by writers and artists to the notorious Feb 14 1989 Fatwa (a sentence of death) from Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, placed on Salman Rushdie for his novel ``The Satanic Verses'', regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as blasphemous.
Directed by Penny Cherns.
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