The home of late Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was heavily damaged in an overnight airstrike on Tehran, according to an independent film journalist on the ground in Iran’s capital.
Mansour Jahani tells Deadline the strike took place in the Chizar district of Tehran. He cited an Instagram post from Kiarostami’s son, Ahmad Kiarostami, that reported, “Last night, the Chizar neighborhood was bombed, where both my mother’s and my father’s houses are located. Last night, my mother called and, in a shaky and broken voice, gave me news of her well-being, but this morning I learned that my father’s house was damaged.”
No one was in Kiarostami’s house at the time of the airstrike, Jahani says. The home has remained in the family’s possession after Kiarostami’s death in 2016 at the age of 76. His former wife, Parvin Amirgholi, lives nearby in the Chizar district, and her house
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