The 2017 Oscar boycott and the "double standard" charge
In January 2017 Alidoosti said she would boycott the Oscars, where The Salesman was nominated, over Donald Trump's "racist" visa ban. Radio Zamaneh reported that some artists criticized the stars' silence on issues inside Iran, and analyst Majid Mohammadi argued on Radio Farda that protesting a US ban while staying silent on Iran's own travel restrictions, detentions of dual nationals and censorsh
Editorial timeline of public reporting, not a legal finding.
- Alidoosti announces she will skip the Oscars - The New York Times and the Guardian reported that Alidoosti, star of Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-nominated The Salesman, wrote that Trump's planned visa ban on Iranians was racist and that she would not attend the Academy Awards in protest, even if she were exempted. Iranian Oscar contender: I'll boycott awards over Trump's 'racist' visa ban
- Radio Zamaneh: praise and criticism of the boycott - Radio Zamaneh reported that Alidoosti's and Farhadi's withdrawal from the Oscars drew mixed reactions among artists: some praised it as committed art, while others criticized artists' silence on what happens inside Iran. هنرمندان متعهد به بهشت میروند، غیرمتعهدها به همهجا
- Radio Farda: "wave-riders of both open and closed systems" - In a Radio Farda commentary, Majid Mohammadi argued that Farhadi and Alidoosti protested the US ban while remaining silent about Iran's own travel restrictions, the hostage-taking of dual nationals and repression at home, including restrictions on women traveling without a male guardian's permission, and wrote that people can be criticized for double standards: apolitical at home and political abroad. موج سواران نظامهای آزاد و بسته، هردو