Iranian filmmaker who boycotted the Oscars over Trump's travel ban, won Best Foreign Language Film
Last night, Director Asghar Farhadi won his second Oscar
for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but Farhadi
was not in attendance to claim the Oscar for his film, "The Salesman."
He
boycotted the awards show in protest of President Donald Trump's
executive order that temporarily barred travelers from seven
majority-Muslim countries, including Iran, from entering the United
States.
In a prepared
speech delivered by Iranian-American engineer Anousheh Ansari, Farhadi
explained his decision. "My absence is out of respect for the people of
my country. Dividing the world into the us and our enemies categories
creates fear".
Read his full statement below......
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