Iranian Director speaks of the “unjust conditions” Trump – Milenio.com

The iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose film The Salesman is nominated for Best Foreign Film in the Oscar, decided not to attend the awards ceremony as a protest to the policies of the president of us.

“I Regret to announce through this press release that I decided not to attend the awards ceremony of the Academy together with my colleagues in the film community” released in a letter published in The New York Times.

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This after Donald Trump, signed a decree that prohibits for 90 days the entrance to the united States to the people of Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran, where he was a Farhadi, being muslim-majority countries.

The filmmaker considered to attend on a principle to express their views on the circumstances of migration between both nations taking advantage of the amount of press around the event, but now it seems that his “presence is conditioned on the ifs and buts that are not acceptable to me even if it made exceptions for my trip,” he said.

“I had No intention of missing or boycott the event as a show of objection, because I know that many in the film industry, american and the Academy of motion picture Arts and Sciences is opposed to the fanaticism and extremism that today are manifested more than ever before,” the director said in his letter.

“I Express my condemnation of the unjust conditions enforced on some of my fellow countrymen and citizens of the other six passes that are attempting to enter legally into the united States and I hope that the current situation does not create divisions between nations,” concluded his letter.

A statement from the Academy mentioned that it was “extremely worrying” that the director and his cast and team work were forbidden access “for your religigión or country of origin”.

Farhadi won the Oscar for Best Foreign language Film in 2012 for his film Separation.

Trump signed this order on Friday that, in addition, suspended the entry of refugees for 120 days and imposed a ban for an indefinite time specifically to Syrian refugees.

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