Farajollah Salahshour suffered from lung cancer and was hospitalized for a time. He had been put under a medical ventilator during this time.
Salahshour’s TV series Prophet Joseph aired in 2008 in Iran was later dubbed in Arabic, Urdu, Azeri and Hindi, and received generally positive reviews by the Islamic world.
He had also directed The Men of Angelos (1999) and Prophet Job (1994) for the IRIB.
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