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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ian Black

Makhmalbaf: back democracy in Iran

Five months after the tumult of the Iranian presidential elections, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a leading spokesman for the opposition movment, is in London to receive the Freedom to Create prize.

The internationally acclaimed director of Kandahar and Sex & Philosophy tells the Guardian's Middle East editor, Ian Black, about the need to link sanctions to human rights and democracy, and why any military action would backfire.

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