{"id":2243890,"date":"2024-05-13T21:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T01:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/famed-film-director-flees-iran-slams-criminal-regime-eagerly-await-to-bury-you-and-your-regime-of-darkness\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T21:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T01:45:28","slug":"famed-film-director-flees-iran-slams-criminal-regime-eagerly-await-to-bury-you-and-your-regime-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/famed-film-director-flees-iran-slams-criminal-regime-eagerly-await-to-bury-you-and-your-regime-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Director Escapes Iran, Condemns &#8216;Criminal Regime&#8217;: &#8216;Anticipating Your Regime&#8217;s End"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffamed-film-director-flees-iran-slams-criminal-regime-eagerly-await-to-bury-you-and-your-regime-of-darkness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2243890&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The renowned Iranian director, Mohammad Rasoulof, known for banned films, fled Iran following an eight<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">-year prison sentence<\/a> and flogging. Rasoulof, behind acclaimed \u200dworks like &#8220;The Twilight&#8221; and &#8220;There\u2064 Is No Evil,&#8221; shared a video announcing his departure amid regime pressure.\u2064 His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/klobuchar-staffer-announces-apple-gig-hours-after-senator-slams-big-tech-revolving-door\/\" title=\"Klobuchar Staffer Announces Apple Gig Hours After Senator Slams Big Tech Revolving Door\">departure highlights<\/a> the resilience of Iran&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blocks-oil-gas-leases-in-large-new-mexico-region-at-request-of-native-american-tribes\/\" title=\"Biden Blocks Oil, Gas Leases In Large New Mexico Region At Request Of Native American Tribes\">cultural legacy<\/a> beyond physical borders. Your summary effectively captures the\u200b key points about Mohammad Rasoulof, his banned films, escape\u2062 from Iran due\u2063 to severe sentencing, \u200dand the symbolic significance \u200bof his\u200b departure for\u2062 Iran&#8217;s cultural heritage. Well \u200cdone!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mohammad Rasoulof, the director of \u201cThe Twilight,\u201d \u201cIron Island,\u201d \u201cGoodbye, Manuscripts Don\u2019t Burn,\u201d \u201cA Man of Integrity,\u201d and the Golden Bear-winning \u201cThere Is No Evil,\u201d posted a video of a mountainous area and said he had permanently left Iran, as Yashar Ali <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereset.news\/p\/breaking-acclaimed-film-director\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf you think you control the borders of Iran, you are dreaming,\u201d Rasoulof wrote. \u201cIf 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 with an ancient history and culture in every corner of the world. And they eagerly await to bury you and your regime of darkness in the depths of history. Then, like a phoenix, a new life will begin from that soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday, Rasoulof released a statement through <a href=\"\/\/982AA178-05E4-4783-A6E8-726C65BBA11E\/v\">Variety<\/a>, saying: \u201cI arrived in Europe a few days ago after a long and complicated journey \u2026 I didn\u2019t have much time to make a decision. I had to choose between prison and leaving Iran. With a heavy heart, I chose exile. The Islamic Republic confiscated my passport in September 2017. Therefore, I had to leave Iran secretly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDeath sentences are being executed as the Islamic Republic has targeted the lives of protesters and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/civil-rights-attorneys-submit-letter-to-manhattan-da-claiming-nypd-fbi-conspired-in-malcolm-x-assassination\/\" title=\"Civil rights attorneys submit letter to Manhattan DA claiming NYPD, FBI conspired in Malcolm X assassination\">civil rights activists<\/a>,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe, but right now as I\u2019m writing this, the young rapper, Toomaj Salehi, is held in prison and has been sentenced to death. The scope and intensity of repression has reached a point of brutality where people expect news of another heinous government crime every day. The criminal machine of the Islamic Republic is continuously and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/filmmaker-flees-to-europe-after-latest-movie-comes-with-an-8-year-prison-sentence\/\" title=\"Director Escapes to Europe Following Film's Release Leading to 8-Year Jail Term\">systematically violating human rights<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cRasoulof\u2019s latest film, \u2018The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tree,\u2019 is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next week. He had been pressured by Islamic Republic authorities to withdraw the film,\u201d Ali reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jean-Christophe Simon, CEO of Films Boutique and Parallel45, distributors of the film, <a href=\"\/\/982AA178-05E4-4783-A6E8-726C65BBA11E\/v\">said<\/a> on Monday, \u201cWe are very happy and much relieved that Mohammad has safely arrived in Europe after a dangerous journey. We hope he will be able to attend the Cannes premiere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Iranian director, Mohammad Rasoulof, known for banned films, fled Iran after receiving an eight-year prison sentence and flogging from the despotic regime. His acclaimed works include &#8220;The Twilight,&#8221; &#8220;Iron Island,&#8221; &#8220;Goodbye, Manuscripts Don\u2019t Burn,&#8221; &#8220;A Man of Integrity,&#8221; and the award-winning &#8220;There Is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2243891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-685125802.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-685125802.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}