Here�s IFP�s translation of a report by Al Alam on the Saudi article:
Following the recent success of Asghar Farhadi�s latest movie, The Salesman, with Shahab Hosseini receiving the Best Actor award at Cannes Film Festival, the Saudi newspaper Makkah published an article, in which the author referred to Iran�s culture, particularly its cinema, as being more dangerous to Saudis than its politics, including General Soleimani.
The Saudi paper admitted that the �Islamic civilization is indebted to Iranian people for everything,� and expressed its regret over the cultural weakness of Saudi Arabia vis-�-vis Iran.
�Iran has invaded the entire world through its professional cinema industry,� the author, Mohammed al-Sahimi, said.
Shahab Hosseini-Cannes 2016
Sahimi highlighted some of the big budget movies made in Iran, commenting, �I previously talked about the film The Kingdom of Solomon, which was made at the standard of Hollywood movies, and noted how the film had worried the Zionist lobbies.�
�Of course, this was not the only impressive achievement of Iranian cinema at a global level; Iran has also managed to impress the world through other films like Prophet Joseph and Muhammad, the Messenger of God,� he went on to say.
He further pointed to the latest achievement of Iranian cinema, The Salesman, saying, �In the latest success, Shahab Hosseini, the Iranian superstar, won the Best Actor award at Cannes Film Festival 2016.�
The author concludes in a seemingly regretful tone, that, �Iran is gaining all these achievements while we [Saudi Arabia] are the only country in the world where there is no cinema!�
This article was translated by IFP from Al Alam News Network.
