Iran Culture Clash

AP News - 822 days ago
Iran Culture Clash
FILE - In this Thursday Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Iranian film director Hana Makhmalbaf protests as she arrives at a movie theater holding a banner against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and a portrait of Neda Agha Soltan, a woman who was killed in a Tehran protest, at the 57th Film Festival in San Sebastian, northern Spain. Iran's political turmoil has raised a culture clash, as hundreds of Iranian musicians, actors, filmmakers, poets and writers have spoken out against the government for its suppression of dissent, which has led to the deaths of 69 people and the arrest of thousands amid widespread reports of torture. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File)