Asghar Farhadi spoke about the conflict in his native Iran during the Cannes Film Festival press conference for his new film “ Parallel Tales ,” saying: “Any murder is a crime.” It didn’t take long for the Iranian auteur to be asked his thoughts on the war between Iran, the U.S. and Israel. The Oscar winner has been living outside of Iran since 2023, though he said he was in Tehran last week and saw the impact of “two tragic events.” “One of these events was the death of a number of innocent people, children, members of the civilian population who died in the war. And before this war, we had the death of a number of demonstrators, people who went to the streets to protest, and they were equally innocent but were massacred,” Farhadi said, speaking through a translator. “These two events are extremely painful and will never be forgotten.” Popular on Variety He also mentioned Iran’s retaliation by conducting missile and drone strikes on Israel and expressed sympathy for those victims.…