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Cultural figures, activists remember Nader Talebzadeh one year after his demise

Friday, 28 April 2023 2:54 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 28 April 2023 4:45 PM ]

Gisoo Misha Ahmadi
Press TV, Tehran

A loss that can never be replaced! At the age of 69, Nader Talebzadeh succumbed to his heart disease at a hospital in the Iranian capital.

Now a year after he was laid to rest the veteran Iranian movie producer, director and researcher is revered as a champion and in the words of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei: a “revolutionary researcher and artist.”

It is with this mentality that Nader Talebzadeh founded the Ammar International Popular Film Festival. Talebzadeh’s death has been widely grieved in Iran and across the region, where he was known as the face of resistance media.

During his fruitful career, Nader Talebzadeh directed, wrote and produced numerous award-winning documentary films. Following a decade of research in historical documents based on the Qur’an and the Bible, in 2007 he produced his first feature-length movie titled “The Messiah,” in which he presented an Islamic perspective on Jesus and his teachings.

Most importantly, Talebzadeh served as the chairman of the International New Horizon Conference, an annual event that scrutinizes the hegemonic policies and war crimes of the US and the Israeli regime. Together with his wife Zeinab Mehanna they were blacklisted and sanctioned by Washington for organizing the conference.

Veteran Iranian documentary filmmaker, researcher and journalist Nader Talebzadeh, passed away last year but he will always be remembered as one the most influential cultural figures in Iran.

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