An Iranian actress who kissed the 83-year-old president of the Cannes film festival on the cheek has apologised to her country, after a photo of the red carpet incident caused outrage. Leila Hatami, theIranianactress who angered authorities in Iran by kissing the Cannes film festival's president on the cheek, has apologised to her country. "I ...

After Leila Hatami, who is serving on the Cannes jury, greeted festival head Gilles Jacob in the customary French way, a government leader condemned her for demonstrating a "bad image of Iranian women to the world." Iranian actressLeila Hatami, co-star of AsgharFarhadi's 2011 Oscar winnerA Separation, has become the target of outrage in her home ...

TEHRAN - Iranian actress Leila Hatami on Sunday angered authorities in Tehran by kissing the Cannes film festival's president on the cheek, an act seen as affront to the "chastity" of the Islamic republic's women. A photograph carried by Iranian media shows Hatami kissing Gilles Jacob at the opening of this year's festival. "Those who attend intentional ...