Iranian actress: 'They wanted to remove me from cinema but I'm here'

The World

Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in France this year. She was awarded for her role in the movie “Holy Spider." But as The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports, Amir Ebrahimi’s path to the red carpet did not come easy.

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