The Daily Show host Jon Stewart makes the leap from small to big screen as writer-director of Rosewater (15A), a political drama about the aftermath of the 2009 Iranian election. 

Iranian state television showed several Iranians alleged to be part of a group of 13 who “confessed” to killing four Iranian nuclear scientists after being trained by Israeli intelligence.

More than two dozen Iranian journalists are among the hundreds of people being imprisoned by the hardline government in Tehran as part of the violent post-election crackdown, according to Amnesty International.