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To whom it may concern,

I understand why you are taking Hamid Naficy's book as gospel, as he is a great film historian who does his research which is why I’m quite shocked, but I am Assadollah Rashidian’s grandson and have brought this to my father’s, Ali Rashidian, and uncle’s, Reza Rashidian’s, attention, just to make sure I wasn’t aware of potential Jewish heritage. They confirmed he was a Shia Muslim, as all the children are, and they’ll be writing a full biography on their father.

I also visit my grandfather’s grave every year and it is certainly not a Jewish grave. I wouldn’t have an issue with my grandfather being Jewish but it’s historically inaccurate. I’m not sure where Mr Naficy sourced that information, but it certainly wasn’t from anyone who knew my grandfather personally or any of my family members.

The problem we have now is that there isn’t another published work that refers to my grandfather’s religious background, but it isn’t mentioned in any other book, article, or documentary where he’s mentioned and I think it would be distasteful to upload an image of his Muslim gravestone.

I’ll correct the article for now until my father has written a proper biography for Wikipedia. I’ll try and track down Mr Naficy at Northwestern to find out who gave him the information. He’s right about the Cinema Rex being owned by the three brothers and my great uncles, Ghodratollah Rashidian and Seifollah, did produce a film called “Golden Dreams” too.

I hope this all makes sense as I want the article to be accurate for everyone’s sake.

Yours faithfully,

Amir Rashidian