It all comes down to a missing pistol. It’s almost exactly halfway through Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful, angry, masterfully crafted “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” that Iman (Missagh Zareh) realizes that ...

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists know how the plants do it. A squirting cucumber in action is a remarkable sight, but if you ...

This possibility is a basic fact of 21st-century life, and Mohammad Rasoulof makes powerful use of it in his drama “The Seed of the Sacred ... a morally dubious one: rubber-stamping severe ...