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From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.