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Iranian director Asghar Farhadi won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar on Sunday (February 26), and sent two Iranian-Americans to accept the award in his place: Anousheh Ansari, a space traveler, and Firouz Naderi, former director at NASA.

“I’m sorry I’m not with you tonight. My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations whom have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the U.S. Dividing the world into the us and our enemies categories creates fear. A deceitful justification for aggression and war. These wars prevent democracy and human rights in countries which have themselves been victims of aggression. Filmmakers can turn their cameras to capture shared human qualities and break stereotypes of various nationalities and religions. They create empathy between us and others. An empathy which we need today more than ever. Thank you on behalf of Mr. Farhadi,” Anousheh read on stage.

The statement was made to speak out against Donald Trump‘s immigration ban.

The six directors nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Awards have released a joint statement to express their “unanimous and emphatic disapproval of the climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the U.S. and in so many other countries.”

The nominees in the category are Denmark’s Martin Zandvliet for Land of Mine, Sweden’s Hannes Holm for A Man Called Ove, Iran’s Asghar Farhadi for The Salesman, Germany’s Maren Ade for Toni Erdmann, and Australia’s Martin Butler and Bentley Dean for Tanna.

You might remember the recent story of Asghar being unable to attend the Oscars this year after President Trump enacted a travel ban from certain predominantly Muslim countries, including Iran.

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Just a day after news that Iranian director Asghar Farhadi may not be able to attend the Oscars due to the “Muslim ban,” he has announced that won’t be at the ceremony.

The 44-year-old Oscar-winning director, who is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for The Salesman, released a statement expressing his thoughts about the situation.

“I regret to announce via this statement that I have decided to not attend the Academy Awards Ceremony alongside my fellow members of the cinematic community,” Asghar said in a statement to the New York Times.

He added, “The possibility of this presence is being accompanied by ifs and buts which are in no way acceptable to me even if exceptions were to be made for my trip.”

Asghar continued on to share his “condemnation” over the “unjust conditions” and other thoughts he would have said to the press if he had attended.

Read his full statement at NYTimes.com.

The Motion Picture Academy is speaking out after reports that Oscar nominee Asghar Farhadi might not be able to attend the 2017 Academy Awards due to the “Muslim Ban” ordered by President Donald Trump.

The president has signed an executive order that will temporarily ban visas for people from several Muslim countries, including Farhadi‘s Iran.

The director is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for his movie The Salesman. He previously won the Oscar in 2012 for his movie A Separation.

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Asghar Farhadi, the Oscar-nominated director of the movie The Salesman, reportedly won’t be able to attend the 2017 Academy Awards next month due to President Donald Trump‘s “Muslim ban.”

Trump is refusing access to the United States for people from seven Muslim countries. There is an indefinite ban for everyone from Syria and there is a 90 day ban on visas for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

Farhadi, who hails from Iran, is already an Oscar winner after his movie A Separation won the award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012. He’s nominated again in the category for The Salesman.