huffington Post:

Right-wingers on social media flipped out over the message Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi had read on his behalf at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. 

Farhadi won the Oscar for best foreign film for “The Salesman,” but didn’t attend the ceremony as a protest against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travelersfrom seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, and temporarily halting the nation’s refugee program. 

 

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