A few words about this tweet by the Iranian foreign minister… https://t.co/f2pqbW8FMs
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
As Twitchy told you, last night, after his film “The Salesman” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (via a statement, as he refused to attend the ceremony) blasted the “inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the US.” His indignation was echoed by Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif:
Proud of cast & crew of "The Salesman" for Oscar & stance against #MuslimBan. Iranians have represented culture & civilization for millennia
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) February 27, 2017
Gotta love a government official for an oppressive — and repressive — Islamist regime condemning America’s inhospitableness and inhumanity. Jake Tapper has a few thoughts on that:
2/Iran regularly jails its filmmakers. Such as Keywan Karimi guilty of “insulting sanctities” in October 2015.
https://t.co/wYzgpjOXOK— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
3/Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to make an "antiregime" documentary https://t.co/JBtg9KE86b
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
4/Documentary filmmaker/women's rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi was jailed for collaborating with the BBC.https://t.co/6D6fzRsrte
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
5/ Musician Mehdi Rajabjan and filmmaker Hossein Rajabian were jailed for “insulting Islamic sanctities”https://t.co/7CWpcUU65b
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
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6/ So FM @JZarif? The traditions of your brilliant people are being oppressed by the tyranny of your government. Tweets notwithstanding
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
Yep. We’re done here.
thank you for calling out hypocrisy
— killermuses (@killermuses) February 27, 2017
wow. Thank you. That was very informative. The #hypocrisy is …
— Lori Hamilton (@wyndovelh) February 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/ldm847/status/836315180233555970
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