A famous Iranian film director whose films are banned in his native country has fled Iran after he was sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging by the despotic Iranian regime.
Mohammad Rasoulof, the director of “The Twilight,” “Iron Island,” “Goodbye, Manuscripts Don’t Burn,” “A Man of Integrity,” and the Golden Bear-winning “There Is No Evil,” posted a video of a mountainous area and said he had permanently left Iran, as Yashar Ali reported.
“If you think you control the borders of Iran, you are dreaming,” Rasoulof wrote. “If the geographical Iran suffers under your religious despotism, the cultural Iran lives in the collective mind of millions of Iranians who were forced to leave Iran due to your oppression and brutality, and no power can impose its will on it. From today, I reside in cultural Iran, a boundless land built by millions of Iranians…
