The complaint has touched a nerve in Iran, where patients are often not told about the severity of their medical condition.
He recalled his father asking: “What sort of secret is it that even the patient cannot be informed about it?”
Since Kiarostami’s death, an increasing number of people in Iran have urged authorities to treat the country’s artists with more dignity.
The death of the legendary film-maker Abbas Kiarostami has sparked an intense debate in Iran over the right of patients to be told the truth about their illness after claims that the director did not know the severity of his condition until shortly before he died.