Must-watch! Tortured Iranian artist moving video against violence after ...

After the Paris attacks, acclaimed Iran artist created this video, which his son asked us to share, against violence as a solution. Hossein Nuri was was left without the use of his arms or legs after he was tortured and imprisoned for a political satire he wrote in Iran in his '20s. He continued his painting, holding a brush in his mouth, and is now one of Iran's most acclaimed artists, with more than 100 exhibitions in Iran, France, China, Germany, Algeria and Lebanon. 

The award-winning artist, documentary filmmaker and playwright was compelled to create this heart-wrenching short video after the violent attacks in Paris - speaking out against violence as an expression of protest.

His son Mahmoud, also a filmmaker, asked Everyone Matters to share his father's video. He explains that his father welcomes a diversity of ideas and opinions: "Mankind's achievements are obtained by the process of confrontation of opposite ideas," he quotes his father as saying, "but whenever this confrontation is expressed by violent means, the outcome would be grotesque. So finally he doesn't wish a world without confrontation of ideas, but one in which such confrontations are non-violent."

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