🔶 House of Cinema asked Pezeshkian to stop summoning and pressure on artists

The board of directors of the House of Cinema, in a letter addressed to Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, criticized the conduct of some security and judicial bodies toward filmmakers and people of culture, and called for issuing an order to halt these practices.

In a part of this letter that the House of Cinema’s public relations has published, it is stated that in days when “the shadow of war and threats from hostile foreign parties” weighs on the country, and senior officials emphasize “national unity,” the behavior of some institutions toward people of culture and art is “precisely in the opposite direction” of this goal.

The House of Cinema, in this letter, asks: «How can we expect all members of the nation to stand in a single line against enemies, when inside, some actions beat the drum of division?»

The board of directors of the House of Cinema emphasized that preserving Iran in the current circumstances requires solidarity and listening to the voices of true concerned people.

This professional body asked Pezeshkian, as the guardian of the Constitution, to issue an order to stop the summoning and other practices criticized, and to form a follow-up and accountable committee to address this issue.