Director: Manouchehr Hadi
Cast: Pejman Bazeghi, Laya Zanganeh, Sima Tirandaz, Fatima Baharmast, Hamid Goodarzi
Yazdan is a 2025 Iranian drama series directed by Manouchehr Hadi, following a social agent named Emad as he moves through the city encountering a fresh human story in every episode. Starring Pejman Bazeghi in the lead role, the series takes an anthology-style approach to urban Iranian life.
What is Yazdan about?
Each episode of Yazdan drops the audience into a different corner of the city alongside Emad, a field agent whose work brings him face to face with ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances. Rather than following a single long-running plot, the series is built from self-contained human stories — a grieving parent, a neighborhood dispute, a stranger whose path crosses Emad's at exactly the wrong moment. The tone is grounded and observational, trusting the weight of everyday situations to carry the drama. Emad serves less as a hero than as a witness, someone whose presence catalyzes events rather than simply resolving them. Across its episodes the show builds a mosaic portrait of contemporary Iranian urban society, each installment standing alone while contributing to a quietly accumulating sense of a city full of lives in motion.
Cast & crew
Pejman Bazeghi anchors the series as Emad, bringing understated credibility to a role that requires him to hold the screen across very different emotional registers each week. He is joined by Laya Zanganeh, Sima Tirandaz, Fatima Baharmast, Hamid Goodarzi, Rozita Ghaffari, Behnoush Bakhtiari, and Alireza Khamseh — a strong ensemble that rotates across episodes as the anthology format demands.
Context & significance
Anthology drama has a long tradition in Persian television, and Yazdan sits comfortably in that lineage while feeling distinctly contemporary in its social concerns. For diaspora viewers, the show offers something valuable: an unfiltered window into the texture of everyday life in today's Iranian cities — not the Iran of news headlines or nostalgic family memories, but the messy, humane, recognizable Iran of neighbors, waiting rooms, and city streets. Director Manouchehr Hadi has shaped a series that takes working-class and middle-class urban experience seriously, treating each episode's subject with dignity rather than reducing them to social commentary. For Persian-speaking audiences abroad, Yazdan is the kind of show that prompts a phone call home.
Where & how to watch
Yazdan is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.