Cyrus Kar

Quick Facts

Full Name	Cyrus Kar
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Mar 18, 1961(1961-03-18)
Age	63
Birthplace	Tehran
Country	Iran
Birth City	Tehran
Horoscope	Pisces

Cyrus Kar Biography

Cyrus Kar is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on March 18, 1961 in Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Cyrus Kar (born March 18, 1961 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born American film director, part-time professor at the University of Phoenix, and now-vindicated alleged terrorist who was captured by United States forces in Iraq on May 17, 2005, while filming a documentary on the life of Cyrus The Great. On July 10, 2005, he was released from custody after his family sued, accusing the U.S. government of violating his civil rights and detaining him after his clearance by the FBI. He was accused of smuggling washing machine timers for use in improvised explosive devices in a taxi he was riding into Baghdad.

On July 7, 2006 Kar sued Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other military officials, calling the government’s detention policies unconstitutional. He also claimed that he was hooded, threatened, taunted and insulted by US soldiers. The lawsuit said his detention violated his Civil rights, Geneva conventions as well as International law. “Human rights monitors note that the vast majority of the over 15,000 detainees in U.S. military custody in Iraq have never been charged, tried, provided counsel, or allowed to challenge their detention in court, and over one-fifth of them have been detained for over a year in this manner,” the suit states. “Mr. Kar was imprisoned by the United States military in Iraq without the slightest hint of legal authority,” said Mark Rosenbaum, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is filing the lawsuit on his behalf. “Saddam Hussein has had more due process than Cyrus Kar; this is a detention policy that was drafted by Kafka.” The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed in July, 2008 after the US Army Field Manual FM 3-24 adopted Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention governing U.S. detention operations.

Cyrus Kar Net Worth

Cyrus Kar is one of the richest Film Director from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cyrus Kar 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

On an August 24, 2005 segment on the Nightline television show Kar described painful and humiliating abuse from US personnel, while in custody in Iraq.

Kar began working on a documentary film about his namesake Cyrus the Great (Persian King) and visited England, Germany, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan for shooting before obtaining permission from the US government to visit Iraq. He arrived in the country on May 7, 2005 and was arrested after 10 days of filming on May 17 by Iraqi security forces before being handed over to US forces. He was then taken to Abu Ghraib prison before eventually ending up in Camp Cropper, where he spent the remainder of his incarceration in solitary confinement. According to the ACLU, he had been permitted three phone calls and a visit from the ICRC.

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Facts & Trivia

Denatay Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iran. Cyrus Kar celebrates birthday on March 18 of every year.