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Following the election of moderate President Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s filmmakers are hoping for an artistic future without censorship. “We had a meeting with the president, discussed the censorship problems of recent years and really shook our hearts out to him about them,” film director Jahangir Kosari said on Saturday. After the meeting, he and his colleagues were confident that the Iranian film industry would “breathe again” with Pezeshkian and find a censorship-free path, Kosari wrote on the website Parsine. However, Kosari still has to be patient with his hopes for better times. His late…

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