The Daily News<\/em> predicts, may not be a reality for Farahani.<\/p>\nIt seems reaction to Farahani has been mixed in Iran. The Washington Post <\/em>article tells us that \u201c[o]n the Internet, which is subject to less censorship in Iran than print media, Farahani without a scarf is a hot topic.\u201d It then reports the various comments which are being posted online by both her supporters and her detractors. Among the comments listed in the article the sense one gets is that opposition to Farahani\u2019s attire decision is based in Islamic religiousness. One angry commenter, Mahdavi, is described as a religious student (this is how he describes himself). He is reported as saying \u201c[h]er being without a head scarf means she belongs to the rude and inconsiderate young generation that has no respect for Islamic values.\u201d The other commenters, who support Farahani, are given no religious distinction.<\/p>\nThe Washington Post<\/em> article also points out the report of a pro-government newspaper which criticized not Farahani, but Western media for Farahani\u2019s scarfless appearance, calling it a media conspiracy. Now I do not doubt this claim was made, but I do wish another perspective from another newspaper or magazine had been reported. I did my own search and did not find any articles from Iranian English language newspapers on the issue \u2013 supportive or otherwise. Maybe this incident isn\u2019t as big a deal in Iran as it appears to be from the American articles. At this point, it\u2019s important to remember that last we have heard the judge had wanted to view the film before making any decision. We have yet to hear the final decision. They really may not care.<\/p>\nBut according to The Daily News<\/em> it is a big deal. They say \u201c[i]t\u2019s hard to see what would bother them. Farahani plays a nurse who treats DiCaprio\u2019s character, but is wary of his advances, insisting that he first meet her family. She won\u2019t even shake his hand.\u201d What The Daily News<\/em> forgets is that perhaps it is not what she does in the film but rather the political implications of working in a film of the country that constantly threatens to bomb you. This is the same country that currently has a man, John McCain, running for president who in the recent past sang a song about bombing Iran. A song about bombing people. This may have something to do with their discomfort, along with perhaps Farahani\u2019s removal of the headscarf in the film.<\/p>\nThe Daily News<\/em> also makes the odd conflation of a Saudi Arabian judge\u2019s threat to \u201cexecute satellite broadcast providers who import \u201cdeviant\u201d Western movies\u201d and Farahani\u2019s fear to return to Iran. Iran and Saudi Arabia are different countries, Daily News<\/em>. And they don\u2019t see eye to eye. This is yet another example of seeing all Muslims as the same, or perhaps all people \u201cover there\u201d as the same.<\/p>\nAlthough Farahani\u2019s fear should not be minimized nor trivialized, we also have to keep things in perspective. Being fully aware of Western media\u2019s depiction of Iran\u2019s treatment of women, we cannot be sure that the coverage presented thus far has been fair and has not inflated the issue. Perhaps we need to wait this one out a little and see if the fuss continues and its outcomes.<\/p>\n
Now, I haven\u2019t viewed the film yet and would welcome comments from those who have viewed it. Is the upset worth it?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MMW\u2018s Friday Links last week had within it three links about Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani (below), who has appeared in the recent Hollywood film Body of Lies. Apparently, from the news reports, it seems that Farahani has created quite a stir within Iran, or as the LA Times reported some \u201cMiddle East-style intrigue\u201d. Middle East-style […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[527,556,559,632],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-golshifteh-farahani","tag-headscarf","tag-hejab","tag-irani"],"yoast_head":"\n
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