Director: Abolghasem Talebi
Cast: Hamid Sefat, Majid Vasheghani, Hamid Goudarzi, Ghotboldin Sadeghi, Siamak Atlasi
Haft Sare Ezhdeha is a 2024 Iranian drama-crime series directed by Abolghasem Talebi, following the web of large-scale financial corruption and political entanglement that shadows contemporary Iranian society. Each episode runs approximately fifty minutes, building a layered portrait of fraud, power, and accountability.
What is Haft Sare Ezhdeha about?
At the center of the story stands a sprawling financial scandal that touches everyone from street-level operators to well-connected figures in positions of authority. As investigators close in on the perpetrators of a complex embezzlement scheme, they find that the threads of wrongdoing reach far beyond a single individual — implicating networks of influence that resist every attempt at exposure. The series unfolds through overlapping testimonies and shifting alliances, placing ordinary people against an institutional machine that has its own rules. Trust erodes, loyalties fracture, and what began as a case file transforms into a reckoning with the broader social cost of unchecked greed.
Cast & crew
Director Abolghasem Talebi brings a restrained, procedural eye to the material. The ensemble includes Hamid Sefat, Majid Vasheghani, and Hamid Goudarzi in central roles, supported by Ghotboldin Sadeghi, Siamak Atlasi, Jafar Dehghan, Aliram Nouraiy, and Mehrdad Ziyai — a strong gathering of familiar Iranian screen presences whose collective experience anchors the drama's credibility.
Context & significance
Crime dramas that engage directly with financial corruption occupy a distinct space in Iranian television, where the tension between institutional opacity and public accountability is a lived reality for many viewers. Haft Sare Ezhdeha belongs to a wave of socially engaged Iranian series that use the procedural form to interrogate systemic failures rather than individual villainy. For diaspora audiences who follow developments inside Iran from abroad, the series offers a recognizable landscape — the language of bureaucracy, the social codes of deference, and the particular frustration of watching justice move slowly. It is the kind of story that resonates not because it is sensational, but because it is credible.
Where & how to watch
Haft Sare Ezhdeha is available to stream on K-Time in original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no geo-blocking, no VPN required. Start a subscription and cancel anytime.