PARIS — One of the best-known actors remaining in
Iran strongly backs the protest movement that has rocked the country, vowing on
Sunday to stay in her homeland and pay “any price” for her rights.
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Taraneh Alidoosti, well known to international
audiences as a regular star in films by Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi,
said she planned to stop working and instead support the families of those
killed or arrested in the crackdown.
“I am the one who
stays here and I have no intention of leaving,” Alidoosti, 38, wrote in a post
on Instagram amid a crackdown that has seen several prominent cultural figures
arrested.
She denied having any passport other than an Iranian
one or any residence abroad.
“I will stay, I will halt working. I will stand by
the families of prisoners and those killed. I will be their advocate,” she
said. “I will fight for my home. I will pay any price to stand up for my
rights, and most importantly, I believe in what we are building together
today.”
As a hashtag, she used the protest movement’s main
slogan: “Woman. Life. Freedom.”
Alidoosti is known as a forthright defender of
women’s rights and broader human rights in Iran. When major protests rocked the
country in November 2019, she declared that Iranians were “millions of
captives” rather than citizens.
Her most famous role was in Farhadi’s film “The
Salesman”, which won best foreign language film at the
Oscars in 2017.
But she has had a prominent presence on the Iranian
cinema scene since her teens, and also starred in the recent acclaimed movie by
director Saeed Roustayi “Leila’s Brothers” which was shown at this year’s
Cannes Festival.
Iranian cinema figures were under pressure even
before the start of the now seven-week-old protest movement sparked by the
death of Mahsa Amini.
Prize-winning directors
Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar
Panahi remain in detention after they were arrested earlier this year.
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