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Neighbours said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street, in eastern Tehran, having been forced to move since she was killed.
Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 24) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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That was evident when the octogenarian Ayatollah Ali Meshkini spoke after more than two thousand reformist candidates among them several dozen sitting MPs were barred from running in 2004 elections.
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
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Neighbours said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street, in eastern Tehran, having been forced to move since she was killed.
Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 24) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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Meshkini so significant (he died of lung disease).
Lionel Beehner: Is Washington Prepared for a Post-Khamenei Iran? 2008
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Both films are political, despite what the filmmakers may say - "When I'm trying to produce a work of art," Meshkini says, "I'm interested in humanistic ideas, not politics" - but not overbearingly so.
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"It's a free market there, there are malls, it's duty free and the laws are a little more flexible, too," Meshkini said during a recent pass through New York, a fleece sweatshirt and jeans replacing the chador, each of her sharp facial features in relief, even under the poor lighting of a hotel restaurant.
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"The color of that water I couldn't find any place else," Meshkini says.
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In other words, with the debut of Meshkini as a searing new talent and the opening of Jafar Panahi's third film on Friday, also taking on, perhaps more directly, the repression of women, Iranian cinema is still full of invention and craft.
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Besides Meshkini, there is Jafar Panahi, whose third film, "The Circle," opens Friday and also takes on the second-class status of women.
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But Meshkini, the wife of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a hero of Iranian cinema and author of the laconic screenplay, takes the template and bravely, stirringly, goes somewhere else, this time exploring the condition of women.
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