Iran's Palme d'Or-winning director Jafar Panahi was cheered as he arrived home after his Cannes win. However, the national press and political reaction has been more muted. Iran has also summoned a French diplomat over praise of 'It Was Just An Accident'.

KABUL - A freight train carrying goods from France has arrived in Afghanistan, in what the Taliban government described as a significant step toward strengthening trade links with Europe. According to Afghan news outlet Amu,

France filed an Application instituting proceedings against Iran before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Jafar Panahi has returned to cheers in Tehran as his Palme d'Or victory prompts a diplomatic spat between France and Iran.

French FM calls Iranian director Jafar Panahi's Cannes triumph 'a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's oppression'; Tehran decries 'insulting remarks'

CANNES, France (Reuters) -Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee said on Friday that he was careful in how he shot his Cannes Film Festival entry "Woman and Child", which never shows women without the mandatory hijab, but was still unsure how he would be received when he returned home.

Iran has summoned France’s representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression.”

By Francois Murphy and John Irish VIENNA (Reuters) -Western powers are preparing to push the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board at its next quarterly meeting to declare Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in almost 20 years,