CNN anchor Jake Tapper blasted Iranian foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif after he praised the “The Salesman” film cast and crew for protesting President Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban.”
On Monday, Tapper tweeted how Iran has treated filmmakers in the past, which included long jail sentences and not being permitted to leave the country for decades. His tweets come after Zarif tweeted, “Proud of cast & crew of ‘The Salesman’ for Oscar & stance against #MuslimBan. Iranians have represented culture & civilization for millennia.” (RELATED: CNN’s Jake Tapper Gets Testy With Russia Today Reporter)
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“A few words about this tweet by the Iranian foreign minister …,” Tapper tweeted. (RELATED: After Spicer Scolded Reporters Who Called Executive Order A ‘Ban,’ Jake Tapper Said This)
A few words about this tweet by the Iranian foreign minister… https://t.co/f2pqbW8FMs
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
“2/Iran regularly jails its filmmakers. Such as Keywan Karimi guilty of ‘insulting sanctities’ in October 2015,” he added.
2/Iran regularly jails its filmmakers. Such as Keywan Karimi guilty of “insulting sanctities” in October 2015.
https://t.co/wYzgpjOXOK— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
“3/Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to make an ‘antiregime’ documentary,” he continued.
3/Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to make an “antiregime” documentary https://t.co/JBtg9KE86b
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
4/Documentary filmmaker/women’s rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi was jailed for collaborating with the BBC.https://t.co/6D6fzRsrte
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
5/ Musician Mehdi Rajabjan and filmmaker Hossein Rajabian were jailed for “insulting Islamic sanctities”https://t.co/7CWpcUU65b
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
6/ So FM @JZarif? The traditions of your brilliant people are being oppressed by the tyranny of your government. Tweets notwithstanding
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 27, 2017
On Sunday, Iranian film director Asghar Farhadi blasted Trump’s travel ban as “inhumane” during his acceptance speech at the Oscars. The director did not attend the 89th Annual Academy awards show in protest of Trump’s travel ban. In a statement read by a friend at the ceremony, he said the ban was nothing but a “deceitful justification for aggression and war.”