Screenwriter And Satirist Nicole Najafi Breaks Down The History & Truth Of The Situation In Iran, Urgently Calls For Support — Guest Column
deadline.comEditor’s Note: For months now, Iranian screenwriter and satirist Nicole Najafi has been determinedly raising awareness on social media from her home in New York, posting reportage coming to her direct from Iran as the people push back against the regime, and using her growing platform to explain the situation to the world in simple terms, with the footage to back it up.
While women remove their head coverings with heroic defiance and ‘dissenters’ are imprisoned and burned, beaten and murdered, Najafi has, unflinching, covered it all.
In July, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in jail for criticizing the government. That same week, Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Aleahmad were also detained.
Panahi has been banned from leaving Iran and making films for the past 12 years for his previous criticism of the regime. Here, Najafi’s guest column for Deadline breaks down the power struggle and the shocking reality of the current situation, so that the underrepresented might be given voice and the twisted truth be dragged into the light.
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