"Farsi, an Iranian film director, shared a poignant photo on social media featuring herself on camera with Hassouna, who was smiling. "My last image of her is a smile. I cling to it today," Farsi wrote early on Friday.
Sepideh Farsi
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Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
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This screengrab, taken from a video released by Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV, shows flames rising from the fuel port of Ras Isa in Hodeidah, Yemen, following US airstrikes, on Friday.
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Smoke rises after Israeli attacks in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City on April 17, 2025.
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Far-right Israeli lawmaker Zvi Sukkot praying at the al-Aqsa compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on Thursday, April 17
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Palestinians, displaced by the Israeli military offensive, shelter in a tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 6, 2025.
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SOUTHERN ISRAEL - DECEMBER 14: Reservists prepare their belongings before entering Gaza at a staging point near the Gaza border on December 14, 2023 in Southern Israel. It has been more than two months since the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas that prompted Israel's retaliatory air and ground campaign in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
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Israel's Minister for Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, looks on as he walks into the Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington, DC on December 26, 2023. Dermer is in Washington to meet with US Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, to discuss matters related to the conflict in Gaza. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel’s political leaders steering ceasefire talks frustrate mediators
President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, in Washington, DC.
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Netanyahu met Trump seeking wins on tariffs and Iran. He returns to Israel empty-handed
President Donald Trump answers a reporters question in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday.
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This frame grab from a video released by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, taken with a phone by one of the 15 Palestinians medics killed, shows Red Crescent emergency vehicles, their lights and sirens flashing and their logos clearly visible, seconds before they came under a barrage of gunfire from Israeli army soldiers in Tel al-Sultan, a district of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, early Sunday, March 23, 2025. (Palestinian Red Crescent Society via AP)
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a plenary session in the outreach/BRICS Plus format at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia October 24, 2024.
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Iran’s president fires deputy for ‘lavish’ trip to Antarctica
A 17-year-old Palestinian boy - Walid Khalid Ahmad - died likely died of “prolonged malnutrition” in an Israeli prison, according to an autopsy carried out by an Israeli pathologist.
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Palestinian teen died in Israeli prison after suffering ‘likely prolonged malnutrition’, autopsy finds
Palestinians travel in vehicles between the northern and southern Gaza Strip, along the Rashid Road (coastal road) west of Gaza City on Wednesday.
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A general view of the destruction in Gaza seen from the border between Israel and Gaza on March 8, 2025.
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Israel announces expansion of military operation in Gaza to seize ‘large areas’ of land, ordering residents to leave
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Bakeries close across Gaza as World Food Programme warns food supplies are set to run out in two weeks
US moves B-2 stealth bombers to Indian Ocean island in massive show of force to Houthis, Iran
Confetti and flowers are dropped from a military helicopter onto a crowd during a celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the victory of rebel forces over Bashar al-Assad's army in Idlib, Syria, Friday, March 28, 2025.
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Syria swears in new transitional government months after Assad’s removal
Hamas agrees to Egyptian ceasefire proposal, Israel counters
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Iran has rejected direct negotiations with the US in response to Trump’s letter