Mina Kavani: “Let us, Iranians, take our destiny into our own hands!”
Collected by Marianne Meunier
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Iranian actress Mina Kavani, who recently starred in the film "Reading Lolita in Tehran," reacts to the current war with Israel and the internal situation in her home country, which she left ten years ago. AK communication
Starring in the recent film Reading Lolita in Tehran , French-Iranian actress Mina Kavani fled her country ten years ago. Seized by anxiety since the American and Israeli attacks, she explains how the Islamic Republic shapes individuals, even though they have learned to free themselves from its prohibitions.
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I subscribeIran has just experienced a war unlike any other in thirty years. What are you feeling? Relief to be in France? A kind of guilt at not being with your loved ones in Tehran?
Mina Kavani: It's almost schizophrenic. I'm in Paris, walking the streets, but my body and soul are in Iran. It's as if I no longer belong there. I'm here without being there, because that's where I am, with my family. I feel the same pain they do. Born a year after the end of the Iran-Iraq conflict, I've never known war.
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