US EditionIraq's first filmmaker in Cannes says sanctions no piece of cake
- Hasan Hadi is the first filmmaker from Iraq selected for the Cannes Festival.
- Hadi believes that economic embargoes did not work and actually empower dictators, as he claims sanctions are ineffective.
- He remarked that the trade and financial embargo against Iraq after the Kuwait invasion harmed society's moral fabric.
- Hadi expressed that sanctions did not help remove Bashar but allowed him to kill and torture more people.
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"Saddam's Cake" Puts an Iraqi Director on the Road to an Oscar
Shafaq News/ Film director Hassan Hadi announced on Sunday that his film "The President's Cake," which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, is nominated for an Oscar. Hadi told AFP, translated by Shafaq News Agency, that "sanctions strengthen dictators because they concentrate scarce resources in their hands and make them more brutal. Never in the history of the world have sanctions been imposed without a president being able to eat." Hadi'…
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Iraq's first filmmaker in Cannes says sanctions no piece of cake
Hasan Hadi, the first filmmaker from Iraq to be selected for the prestigious Cannes Festival, said economic embargoes like those imposed in his childhood under Saddam Hussein did not work.
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The New ArabIraq’s first filmmaker in Cannes says sanctions no piece of cake
Hasan Hadi, the first filmmaker from Iraq to be selected for the prestigious Cannes Festival, said economic embargoes like those imposed in his childhood under Saddam Hussein did not work. "Sanctions empower dictators," he told AFP, as they concentrate scant resources in their hands and only make them "more brutal". "In the history of the
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