Actress Golab Adineh cuts the cake for the 79th birthday of the U.S.-based celebrated Iranian director and playwright Bahram Beizai at Tehran’s City Theater Complex on December 25, 2016. Some of Beizai’s colleagues are also seen in the photo. Beizai left Iran in the late 2000s to pursue an educational career at Stanford University in the United States of America as a visiting professor of Persian studies. (Honaronline/Saeid Rabiei)