Bushehr nuclear reactor
Bushehr nuclear reactorReuters

Six prominent Iranian filmmakers have launched a campaign urging world powers to agree a permanent solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program, The BBC reports.

The directors - including Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi, who won Iran's first Oscar in 2012 - say "there is no deal that is worse than no deal".

International sanctions have hurt the Iranian people without harming their country's nuclear program, they add.

The initiative comes as a November 24 deadline for negotiations between Iran and the six world powers approaches.

Last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said there had been "steps forward" at the talks with the P5+1 but that they had not been "significant".

Negotiators are seeking to build on last year's interim agreement that saw Iran curb uranium enrichment in return for partial sanctions relief.

The Islamic Republic has been taking an increasingly aggressive line in demanding its "right" to enrich uranium, with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently saying Iran "needs" 19 times more nuclear centrifuges than the amount being offered by world powers.

According to The BBC, the six directors behind the new social media campaign usually make films that are banned from being shown in Iran but win prestigious prizes abroad.

Now, in spite of their unhappy relations with the government, they have launched a campaign to get world powers to agree to what appears to be an improved version of an offer that Iranian nuclear negotiators made in July.

The offer called on the six powers to accept a nuclear program frozen at current size and scope.

The filmmakers say that, combined with daily inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), would remove the possibility of Iran racing ahead to make a nuclear weapon.

The campaign is believed to be backed by Iran's foreign ministry and reflects the growing anxiety among many Iranians, who fear the biting international sanctions may continue and even get worse if there is no an agreement by November 24.

Iran and the powers set the November 24 deadline after they failed to meet an earlier July 20 target date for an agreement.