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Makhmalbaf in Occupied Lands

TEHRAN (Asremrooz): Mohsen Makhmalbaf has traveled to Israel in order to presence in International Festival Jerusalem Film. He had speech in praise of Baha’i in occupied lands and friendship with Israel.
Following his trip, 150 individuals including artists, journalists and his supporters in an open letter expressed their worry of his trip and wrote “his decision for participating in the festival Film that directly supports by Israel regime and their especial appreciation means his support of Israel policies”.
But he even ignored his foreign supporters and defended his trip to occupied lands and said “"I went there to take a message of peace, I try to unite people through arts, I am citizen of cinema, and cinema has no border, and in fact before my journey to Israel my film travelled to that country many years before."
Although some of the western actors and singers have rejected Zionist regime invitation for performing there, he who his country was threated by Netanyahu accepts and traveled there.
He as well as Noorizad had speech about Baha’i , praised and appreciated them. This is not his first time to support them he has produced a movie called Gardener that directly support them.
The interesting point is that sedition leaders relation with British and Zionist agents so when they reveal their real nature we must be aware of their tricks.