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Iranian-American space experts to step in for Farhadi at Oscars
Anousheh Ansari, the first female space tourist, and Firouz Naderi, a former director of Solar Systems Exploration at NASA, will be representing Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi at the Oscars on Sunday.
Although Farhadi’s The Salesman is a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Farhadi previously stated that he will not be present at the ceremony in reaction to President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. Iran is one of the seven majority-Muslim countries that Trump barred from traveling to the United States.
