As recently as 2018, Sara Omatali posted positively about Aydin Aghdashloo, his support of women, and his work as a dissident.
In 2018, while commenting on protests by Iranian women for their social rights, Sara Omatali, who is one of the only named sources in The New York Times article, shared on Twitter an anecdote recalling a phone conversation she had with Aydin Aghdashloo.
She recounts an incident where the conservative newspaper Keyhan named Aydin Aghdashloo, among others, responsible for a “Velvet Revolution” against the Iranian Government. According to her tweet, Aghdashloo told Omatali: “What they don’t realize is that Iranian women…are the revolutionary ones, and we [men] are only bystanders watching.”
The following tweet not only shows Ms. Omatali’s support for Aydin Aghdashloo but demonstrates that Mr. Aghdashloo has no close ties to the regime.
