Iranian Diaspora

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Source link Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Rasoulof is banned from leaving Iran A film by an Iranian director about capital punishment has won the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. Mohammad Rasoulof was banned from directing in 2017 and produced There Is No Evil, his sixth film, in secret. He is unable to travel outside Iran due to charges relating to his earlier films. Mr Rasoulof’s daughter Baran, who also stars in the film, received the Golden Bear on his behalf. Jury president Jeremy Irons said that the film, which tells four stories about the death penalty, showed “the web an authoritarian regime weaves among ordinary people, drawing them towards inhumanity”. The second-place award at the festival went to Never Rarely Sometimes Always, a film about abortion in the US by director Eliza Hittman. Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Rasoulof took part in a news conference via a mobile phone held by his daughter Baran Addre...

Source link (U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a graphic from a study he says names the United States as the country most prepared to handle a pandemic during a news conference on Feb. 27)[Getty/Kyodo] The U.S. government said Saturday it will ban the entry of travelers from Iran amid concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus there, while issuing an alert to U.S. citizens not to travel to some virus-hit areas of South Korea and Italy. The United States, which has barred the entry of foreign nationals who have been in mainland China within the past 14 days, will extend the ban from Monday to include foreign nationals who have visited Iran within the last 14 days. Concerns are growing that the United States may also see a major outbreak of the pneumonia-causing virus, with infection cases without a known source of exposure emerging in the country. Health officials announced the same day the first reported death in the United States from COVID-19, the official name of the di...

Source link UPDATED: February 29, 11:00 p.m Harvard has restricted travel to Italy and Iran amid an outbreak of coronavirus cases in the two countries, according to a Saturday email from University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 and Harvard University Health Services Director Giang T. Nguyen. On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Level 3 warning regarding COVID-19 in Italy and Iran, which recommends Americans avoid nonessential travel. “University travel to Italy, Iran, South Korea and mainland China is restricted until further notice,” the email read. As of Saturday afternoon, Italy had recorded more than 1,000 cases of the novel coronavirus and 29 deaths. Iran has reported 388 cases of coronavirus since Friday. The BBC released a report this week totaling 210 deaths in Iran from the outbreak, but Iranian officials have only confirmed 34 deaths as of Friday. Italy and Iran join China and South Korea on Harvard’s list of travel-restricted countries —...

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Source link Exhibition on Iran’s culture LAHORE : Lahore Arts Council in collaboration with Khana-e-Farhang Cultural Centre Islamic Republic of Iran, Lahore organised an exhibition on Iran’s culture and tourism titled “Iran Highlights”. Around 100 photos of 16 Pakistani bikers visiting Iran, fine Iranian handicrafts, tourism & cultural books are on display. The exhibition was inaugurated by Consul General Iran, Muhammad Raza Nazri, along with Executive Director, Lahore Arts Council, Ather Ali Khan and Principal National College of Arts Murtaza Jaffri. Calligraphy and Tazhib (illumination) & Miniature Workshop were the part of the activity. On the occasion, Consul General Iran, Muhammad Raza Nazri, said the Culture of Iran, also known as Culture of Persia, is one of the most influential cultures in the world, Iran is considered as one of the cradles of civilization. He said Iran is a brotherly neighbour of Pakistan. He admired the values on Alhamra platform and said Alhamra Art...

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Source link VOA News Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called on Russia to get out of Turkey’s way in Syria and allow Turkish forces to deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  In a speech to supporters, Erdogan said Turkey had “entered Syria at the demand of the Syrian people and not at the demand of Assad.”  Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the funeral of Turkish soldier Emre Baysal, who was killed in Syria’s Idlib region, in Istanbul, Turkey, Feb. 29, 2020. Erdogan said Turkey had retaliated against Syrian forces for killing 34 of its soldiers this week in the northwestern province of Idlib.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian war, reported Saturday that Turkey had killed 26 pro-Damascus troops around Idlib and the Aleppo countryside.  It also reported that Russian planes continued to support Syrian government forces in the battle fo...

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Source link BEDFORD — Hamid Jalili and his wife, Bahareh Khamesi, helped save lives as doctors in their native Iran. But wanting a better life for their two daughters, they decided to relocate to New Hampshire, where his relatives already lived. Foreign-born workers who want to work in the United States can help ease the region’s labor shortage, but they often need to overcome obstacles first. This family of four was at the Tehran airport the day the U.S. government’s travel ban took effect in early 2017. “It was very disappointing because we sold all of our stuff — our house, our cars. We left our jobs,” Jalili, 53, said in the family’s two-bedroom apartment not far from busy Route 3. The family spent a week in limbo before receiving approval to fly to America. Even then, authorities held up their then-19-year-old daughter, Helia, from leaving for another day, forcing the family to split up. U.S. government officials “had a problem with our governmen...

Source link BERLIN — The Golden Bear for best feature film at the Berlin International Film Festival was given on Saturday to “There Is No Evil,” a drama by the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof centering on people who carry out executions in the Islamic Republic. Rasoulof, who in 2019 was sentenced to prison in Iran for “spreading propaganda” and has been banned from making films and leaving the country, was not able to attend the ceremony. The film was directed in secret while Rasoulof was appealing his sentence. In an emotional acceptance speech, Farzad Pak, one of the film’s producers, described the director’s absence as an injustice and praised the film’s cast, saying they “put their lives in danger” to be in the film. The actors, many of whom were in tears, were given a standing ovation. This year’s jury was led by the British actor Jeremy Irons, and included the American filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan and the French-Argentine actress Bérénice Bejo. The runner-up award wa...

Source link Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival for his film titled There Is No Evil, which he made despite being forbidden to do so by the government in Tehran. Rasoulof was not present at the February 29 ceremony to receive the Golden Bear award for the film, which tells four stories loosely connected to the use of the death penalty in Iran and dealing with personal freedom under tyranny. Rasoulof, who was sentenced to a year in prison in 2017 and is barred from leaving Iran, is a prominent critic of the Iranian government and has been banned by the authorities from making films for life. Event organizers left an empty chair and name sign for the 48-year-old Rasoulof at the news conference for his film entry. Germany’s dpa news agency reported that Rasoulof’s daughter, Baran, accepted the Golden Bear on his behalf. The Berlin festival jury chose There Is No Evil over 17 other films competing for the prize, including Sally Potter’s T...

Source link news, national The Morrison government has defended its decision to ban foreign visitors entering Australia from Iran to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, rather than South Korea which has a much higher level of cases. Under similar restrictions imposed on China at the beginning of February, the government announced on Saturday that foreign nationals who have been in Iran will be banned from entering Australia for 14 days. Australian citizens, permanent residents and their immediate family who have travelled to Iran will be required to self isolate at home for 14 days from the day they left the country. There have been 388 COVID-19 cases reported out of Iran, compared to 2300 in South Korea, However, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said that of the 106 deaths that have been reported outside of China, 43 have been in Iran. That’s the highest reported death rate outside the epicentre of the virus in Hubei province, China. “As the chief medical officer has pointed out...

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Source link They joined forces in 1980 as members of the masked, black-clad SAS squad that stormed London’s Iranian Embassy in a jaw-dropping display of British courage. The nation watched mesmerised as Rusty Firmin and Robin Horsfall, alongside their fearless Special Forces colleagues, set off explosives, burst through windows and shot dead hostage-holding terrorists in a hail of sub-machinegun bullets. The terrifying operation, seen by a spellbound audience of millions on live television on a May Bank Holiday evening, made the SAS what they remain today – the world’s most celebrated military unit. Rusty Firmin – wearing no gloves – is seen with SAS colleagues during the fabled 1980 Iranian embassy assault, in a jaw-dropping display of British courage In a furious and widely shared online post, Firmin (left) suggested the fighting was finished when his Special Forces colleague Robin Horsfall (right) entered the embassy and that his role was to ‘evacuate hostag...

Source link Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof won the top prize at the Berlin film festival for There Is No Evil, a searingly critical work about the death penalty in Iran. Rasoulof, 48, is currently banned from leaving Iran and was unable to accept the Golden Bear in person. Accepting the award on his behalf, producer Farzad Pak thanked “the amazing cast and crew who, put their lives in danger to be on this film”. The film tells four loosely related individual stories about the death penalty in Iran, from the executioner to the families of the victims. Industry magazine Variety called it Rasoulof’s “most openly critical statement yet”. Rasoulof was sentenced to a year in prison last year for “attacking the security of the state”, and banned from making films for life. Speaking to a news conference via mobile phone, the director said his latest film was about “taking responsibility” under despotism. “You can try to put aside your own responsibility and pass the buck to t...

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Source link Oxon Hill, United States, Feb 29, 2020 (AFP) – U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he was ready to aid Iran with its outbreak of novel coronavirus if the country asked for assistance. “If we can help the Iranians with this problem, we are certainly willing to do so… All they have to do is ask. We will have great professionals over there,” Trump said at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) near Washington. The virus has now hit 61 countries across the globe, prompting the World Health Organization to raise its risk assessment to its highest level. Iran’s health ministry on Saturday reported nine new deaths, taking the total to 43. U.S. authorities in the West Coast state of Washington meanwhile confirmed on Saturday the first fatality on American soil. Trump imposed new restrictions on anyone who has traveled in the last two weeks to Iran, and urged Americans not to visit hard-hit areas of Italy and South Korea. The U.S. State Departmen...

Source link Updated March 01, 2020 10:16:30 NSW Health has confirmed the fifth case of coronavirus in the state. A man in his 40s who recently returned from a trip to Iran is being treated at Westmead Hospital in western Sydney after experiencing mild symptoms. NSW Health is urging people who have recently returned from Iran to ensure they are aware of coronavirus symptoms and seek immediate help. Chief health officer Kerry Chant said this was the fifth person to be diagnosed with coronavirus in Sydney — the previous four have all been discharged from hospital. “This latest case arrived in Sydney from Iran on 22 February, 2020. He did not develop symptoms until 24 February, 2020 and was seen at a hospital emergency department and tested on 28 February,” Dr Chant said. “He was advised to be isolated at home while waiting for the test result which was confirmed positive for COVID-19 late on 29 February.” Another man in his 50s in NSW is also under investigation for possible i...

Source link President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and senior US health officials announced Saturday afternoon that the Trump administration will respond to a global increase in confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus by expanding its travel ban on Iran and issuing “do not travel” warnings to areas in Italy and South Korea most affected by viral outbreaks. The announcement comes in the wake of the first US death due to the novel coronavirus in Washington state, where a woman in her 50s, described by the president Saturday as being “medically high-risk,” died from the virus overnight. Under the new travel restrictions, no Iranians or non-Americans who have been to the country in the last 14 days will be allowed to enter the US, Pence said. Iran has reported 593 cases of the coronavirus and 43 deaths — the largest number of deaths outside of mainland China. As of Saturday afternoon, Italy has 1,128 confirmed cases and South Korea has 3,150, according to data compiled ...

Source link BERLIN — “There Is No Evil,” a study of capital punishment filmed in secret defiance of Iranian government censorship by director Mohammad Rasoulof, won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear award on Saturday. Rasoulof, whose film explores the moral dilemmas thrust on those chosen to carry out executions and the consequences of defiance for them and those around them, was unable to leave Iran to pick up the award because of propaganda charges he faces in relation to earlier films. “This is for him,” said his daughter Baran, who stars in the film and picked up the award on his behalf. Producer Farzad Pak added thanks to the cast and crew “who put their lives in danger to be in this film.” Jury president Jeremy Irons described the film as “four stories showing the web an authoritarian regime weaves among ordinary people, drawing them towards inhumanity,” adding that the film “asks questions about our own responsibility and choices we all make in life.” The second-place...

Source link Australian authorities have stopped travel to Iran after a Gold Coast woman returned home with coronavirus. The National Security Council will increase the warning advice level to four as of tomorrow, which means Australians will not be able to travel to Iran and anyone returning from the Middle Eastern region will be required to stay in quarantine for a minimum 14 days until they are cleared. Countries with confirmed cases of coronavirus. (Graphic: Tara Blancato) It has been confirmed that Iran has the largest reported number of deaths from coronavirus outside of Hubei Province and there are already cases of the virus from Iran to several countries including Australia and New Zealand, despite the absence of direct flights and relatively low travel volumes from Iran to these countries. It is also believed that the number of reported cases in Iran is underestimated. Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy also said anyone who recently tra...

Source link A 63-year-old woman has been put into isolation on the Gold Coast after testing positive to coronavirus. On Saturday it was revealed the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia has increased by two to 25, including the Queensland woman. The beautician saw up to 40 people at a Southport salon on Thursday before she started to develop symptoms and went home. “She saw a number of clients each for brief interactions, so we believe the risk is incredibly low,” she said. More on 7NEWS.com.au Health authorities are trying to track down all the people the woman treated. A 79-year-old west Australian woman has also tested positive after being evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. This comes as the World Heath Organisation raised the risk of the spread of the disease to “very high”. What is a pandemic? According to Merriam Webster, the dictionary definition is “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an ex...

Source link DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain on Saturday threatened legal prosecution against travelers who came from Iran and hadn’t been tested for the new coronavirus, and also barred public gatherings for two weeks as confirmed cases across the wider Middle East grew to over 520. The tiny island nation off the coast of Saudi Arabia has been hard-hit with cases and shut down flights to halt the spread of the virus, which causes the illness named COVID-19 by experts. All of Bahrain’s cases link back to Iran, whose death toll of 34 killed is the worst outside of China, the epicenter of the virus. Iran alone has 388 cases of the virus, including top officials, and experts fear that number may be far greater, something Iranian officials themselves have begun to hint. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that 2,292 people had come to the kingdom from Iran before the an...