iran unfiltered

In the wake of the arrest and continuing detention of filmmaker Jafar Panahi, recently self-exiled actress Golshifteh Farahani has spoken out about him as well as her own situation and that of Iranian artists in the Islamic Republic.  Of Panahi she says:

We are so angry. Jafar is one, maybe the only one… still in Iran who is talking. Most artists [in Iran] don't talk because they would rather work somehow. I appreciate that, but Jafar is the one who had the courage to talk, and he talked for everyone.