‘We need stories about leadership more than ever’

Amid the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the Oscar-nominated Iranian documentary ‘Cutting Through Rocks’ offers a different vision of leadership

Iran’s first Oscar-nominated documentary will compete in Hollywood at a time of incredible tumult at home, days after US-Israeli strikes killed the country’s long-time supreme leader.

As the Islamist regime scrabbles to shore itself up in the wake of the death of the hardline Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Cutting Through Rocks offers a different vision of leadership in a country dominated by male clerics for half a century.

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