Filmmaker Calls for Unity and Praises Pezeshkian’s Apology

Greetings and my respectful regards to

the esteemed audience and

the honorable officials,

and well done to the dear judges.

Mashallah for your courage that in these circumstances you agreed to

do this judging. Amin jan, I know what kind

of situation will come your way.

Give them a strong round of applause. You deserve

a lot of applause.

Because you really do not know what is going on, maybe you do, definitely,

but what is really going on in our lives or in virtual space with these

attacks that happen, with a new fascist environment

in Western media,

they attack our kids so much— look,

the kids who are not here or are here, it makes no difference,

I mean such an attack is carried out through the media

on our children that this happens, they take our togetherness away from us.

Be careful that they do not take this togetherness of

ours from us.

By God, we are sad too, I am in mourning too. I am in mourning for Melika as well.

She was three years old, I am in mourning for this dear martyr of my homeland too.

Is there anyone,

is there any great person or any human being in this country who is not in mourning

and not sad?

We are all made from the same earth.

We are all the same, alike, in pain. But the same

fascist current that is creating this distance between us,

so that someone is upset or someone is not,

look at their rhetoric,

see how they insult us.

We are definitely not afraid of what you say. We are definitely standing

behind this flag.

All of us artists, whether we are here or not, stand behind the flag, behind Iran.

We are not afraid because

if an enemy comes, we are surely the gallows- defying people of Iran.

So do not try to scare us with killing, stop sending us so many messages.

Mr. Pezeshkian,

bravo to your integrity for apologizing to the people today, thank you.

You are my fellow townsman. Yashasiz, qadayiz alam.

Work more for the people, work more for our nation. Work for everyone.

My dears, whoever it may be, I as a filmmaker,

you as the people or an official,

if anyone shortchanges this nation

and the land of Iran,

will surely, before God…

He must answer to all our martyrs. Please look after our young people. Thank you.