When she became the very first Iranian to win a Nobel Prize, Lady Shirin Ebadi chose to use her acceptance speech to bash Western nations and to highlight the dire situation of the incarcerated in the Guantanamo Bay by America.

Now that she does not have the world’s eyes focused on her, she is championing the situation of Iranians being savagely brutalized by the Islamist fascists for the past 38 years and counting.

For those who care about the dire situation of Iranians being savaged by the Islamist fascists, the just announced Asgar Farhardi winning his second Oscars is fantastic news.

Farhadi now has the world’s eyes focused on him. As a political act against Trump’s excesses bordering on infringement on the cherished American freedom, Farhadi chose to boycott the ceremony and have his speech read by proxy; he can now use his renewed fame to pay attention to Iranians.

In short, Mr. Farhadi, now that you’ve chosen to use your fame for political causes, how about you spend some of that capital on Iranians including your colleagues languishing in the savage Islamist fascists’ archipelago of dungeons?

Sanction works, U.S. Senate, get to it.

above caricature; Mana Neyestani