“Hard-liners, despite their nationalities, political arguments and wars,” he wrote, “regard and understand the world in very much the same way. Instead, he issued a statement of “what I would have expressed to the press were I to travel to the United States.”
One unnamed White House source told People this weekend that an exception might be made for Farhadi, but the filmmaker stated Sunday that, regardless, he will not attend the ceremony. One of the most widely covered stories about the ban has been that of the Oscar-winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, who, like his fellow countrymen, is effectively barred from entering the United States - let alone attending the Academy Awards on February 26, even though his latest movie, The Salesman, is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. The effects of the ban have been rippling throughout the world in the days since, tearing apart families, blocking students from coming back to school, and leaving innocent people detained in airports for interminable durations. Last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S for the next 90 days.
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