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Sept. 26: The boycott appears straightforward: Mohammad Hosseini, Iran’s culture minister, yesterday confirmed that his country would not submit a film for consideration at next year’s Oscars in protest of Innocence of Muslims, the anti-Islam YouTube video that has sparked deadly riots.
He specifically cited the “failure” of Oscar organisers to take an official position on the incendiary “film.”
But Iran’s move left Hollywood scratching its head. Iran, which won the Academy Award for best foreign language film earlier this year, was seriously going to boycott moviedom’s biggest prize because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hadn’t denounced the video.
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