A statement was read for the director Asghar Farhadi, criticizing the U.S. travel ban, after his film “The Salesman” won award for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.

Farhadi, the Iranian-born director and writer who was absent from the Oscar ceremony, had a statement read on his behalf by the Anousheh Ansari.

The statement said that, I am sorry I am not with you tonight. My absence is out of the respect for people of my country and those of the other six nations who have been disrespected by the inhumane law which bans entry of the immigrants to U.S. The law is Dividing the world into the 'US' and 'Our Enemies' categories creates fear, the deceitful justification for aggression and war.

The social media users reacted after hearing Asghar Farhadi's statement. Farhadi said in January that he would not attend the Oscar ceremony in the wake of President Trump's travel ban targeting the several Muslim-majority countries.

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Farhadi wrote in his statement in January saying that, It now seems that the possibility of this presence is being accompanied by ifs and buts which are in no way acceptable to me even if the exceptions were to be made for my trip. To humiliate one nation with the pretext of guarding the security of another is not the new phenomenon in the history and has always laid the groundwork for the creation of future divide and enmity. I hereby express my condemnation of the unjust conditions forced upon some of my compatriots and also the citizens of the other six countries trying to legally enter into the United States of America and hope that the current situation will not give rise to the further divide between nations.

Mrudula Duddempudi.