When the play by Yasmina Reza ran on Broadway in 2009-10, it originally starred Hope Davis in Ms. Winslet's role with James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden and Jeff Daniels.
Interpol has confirmed that the passports, which their owners reported stolen, were used by two Iranian citizens, 29-year-old Seyed Mohammed Reza Delavar and 18-year-old Pouria Nourmohammadi.
Some 18 months ago, Ali Reza Rajai, a religious nationalist, was unexpectedly returned in parliamentary elections (though squeezed out by a suspicious-looking recount).
Islamic scholar and author Reza Aslan wrote after the Amman bombings last November that moderate Muslim clerics must reclaim a faith hijacked by extremists.