Devoutness. Farhadi didn’t shake hands with Madonna when she presented him Golden Globe award, nor with Sandra Bullock at the Oscars
Majid Majidi “Children of Heaven” won the same nomination. @TIME mistakenly saying Farhadi’ as 1st award of its kind http://ti.me/zEhH2q
Khomeini’s justification was that stoning provided ammunition to Iranian opposition groups in the West http://lakm.us/9cM
Khomeini instructing Iran’s judges to either refrain from handing down stoning verdicts, or at the very least, to hold stonings away from the public eye (Abbas Abdi)