A spokesman for the Nuremberg Human Rights Film Festival has announced that Narges Kalhor, daughter of a top adviser to unelected President Ahmadinejad, has applied for political asylum in Germany. Kalhor was in Nuremberg (and sporting a green scarf) to present her film "The Rake" at the city's film festival. (Ironically, the film condemns torture and totalitarian rule.)Mahdi Kalhor, Narges' father, is Ahmadinejad's adviser on cultural and media affairs. He has told the state-run IRNA news agency that he knew nothing of either the subject of his daughter's films or her plans to flee the country, instead blaming "a media and soft war that [the] opposition has launched" for exploiting her situation.
