Iranian Director Is No Show, Wins Oscar, Blasts Trump's Travel Ban

John Amato, Crooks and Liars
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 9:31pm

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi announced he would not attend tonight's Academy Awards because of Trump's travel ban, but won Best Foreign Language Film for "The Salesman." Since he didn't show up, he had a statement read by Anousheh Ansari, the first Muslim woman to go to space: "I'm sorry I'm not with you tonight.

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