Iranian documentary offers revolutionary vision for women

Iranian documentary offers revolutionary vision for women

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. "We have a character in o…