{"id":558511,"date":"2026-03-24T23:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558511\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:41:14","slug":"house-of-iranian-director-abbas-kiarostami-hit-in-air-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558511\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Iranian Director Abbas Kiarostami Hit in Air Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe house of legendary Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Certified Copy) has reportedly been hit and damaged in air strikes on the Chizar district of Tehran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPosting on social media, Kiarostami\u2019s son Ahmad Kiarostami said his father\u2019s house was hit during last night\u2019s bombing raid. Heavy airstrikes struck multiple areas in the Iranian capital city, resulting in blackouts across large section of Tehran. The attack came shortly after Israel announced it would be targeting infrastructure in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/iran\/\" id=\"auto-tag_iran_1\" data-tag=\"iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> as Israel and the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/middle-east-production-iran-war-1236525093\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continue the war against Iran <\/a>that began on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cLast night, the Chizar neighborhood was bombed, where both my mother\u2019s and my father\u2019s houses are located,\u201d said Kiarostami. \u201cLast night, my mother called and, in a shaky and broken voice, gave me news of her well-being, but this morning I learned that my father\u2019s house was damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAbbas Kiarostami, who died in 2016, was one of Iran\u2019s most acclaimed directors. He won the Palme d\u2019Or at the Cannes film festival for Taste of Cherry in 1997. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/international\/\" id=\"auto-tag_international_1\" data-tag=\"international\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international<\/a> work included the 2010 French drama Certified Copy starring Juliette Binoche. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPresident Trump said there had been \u201cvery strong talks\u201d with Iran to end the war, though Iranian officials have not confirmed that. The hostilities continued on Tuesday, with Iran launching missiles targeting  Israel and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in Iraq. Persian Gulf nations also reported more drone and missile launches on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Israeli military on Tuesday said it had carried out over 3,000 strikes against Iran since the war began. Separately, Israel pressed on with its campaign in Lebanon against the Iran-backed militia group Hezbollah,, issuing new evacuation warnings for the country\u2019s south and raising fears that Israeli is preparing for a wider ground invasion.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The house of legendary Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Certified Copy) has reportedly been hit and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,77,5897,163627],"class_list":["post-558511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-iran","tag-israel-iran-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}