Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi backed week-long nationwide strikes by truckers Wednesday as a "loud call" to the authorities, after arriving home from his triumph at the Cannes film festival.Truck drivers across Iran were striking for a seventh day on Wednesday in a stoppage rare in its length and magnitude,

Supporters turned out to greet the Iranian filmmaker when he flew into Tehran following his Cannes Film Festival win.

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident” has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.