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Cannes awards Palme d’Or to Iranian revenge drama ‘It Was Just an Accident’
Cannes, May 25 (AP) Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his revenge ...
Iran summons French envoy after FM’s Cannes comments
Mr Jean-Noel Barrot called the win a "gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression”. Read more at ...
'Insulting remarks, unfounded allegations': Iran summons French envoy over Panahi's Cannes film hailed as 'gesture of resistance against oppression'
France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, had praised dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or win as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's oppression.” ...