Poster for Iranian Nights

Iranian Nights

1989 56 minutes

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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.

Released

1st January 1989

37 years ago

Runtime

56 minutes

Finishes at 11:15pm

Directed by

Penny Cherns

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Written by

Howard Brenton, Tariq Ali

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