{"id":4507,"date":"2026-08-19T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehranbureau.com\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:03:23","slug":"the-night-it-rained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resanegar.com\/en\/the-night-it-rained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night It Rained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting to the bottom of a story can be a daunting task, especially in Iran, and especially when you do your fact-checking through sources with agendas to push, policy prescriptions to fill, positions to hold on to. It sounds like the latest topic of discussion among Iranians on Clubhouse. It\u2019s actually the plot of a documentary from 1967 by Kamran Shirdel. In <em>The Night It Rained<\/em>, a filmmaker sets out to investigate the truth behind a sensational story about a village boy who is said to have saved a train from derailing. 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