Hollywood (Not Washington) Attacks Iran
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Oh this is awfully good. Drudge has picked up a brilliant piece that captures our time: Iranian officials have lambasted the new blockbuster movie "300" for attacking Persian culture. Don't get me wrong. I love Iran. As I have written, of the 60 countries I have visited, Iran is the one that is most like America. (By the way, turn this statement around, and doesn't it sound like it could come from some American Anti-Defamation League!) But Iran in the wake of the Islamic revolution spent the first decade attacking Persian culture and even considered tearing down Persepolis, the jewel of Ancient Persia, because it was so associated with the Shah and was part of the "silence" before Islam. Now they suddenly want to attack Hollywood for not loving the place!
An Iranian official on Sunday lashed out at the Hollywood movie "300" for insulting the Persian civilization, local Fars News Agency reported.
Javad Shamqadri, an art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused the new movie of being "part of a comprehensive U.S. psychological war aimed at Iranian culture", said the report.
Shamqadri was quoted as saying "following the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Hollywood and cultural authorities in the U.S. initiated studies to figure out how to attack Iranian culture," adding "certainly, the recent movie is a product of such studies."
The movie's effort wound be fruitless, because "values in Iranian culture and the Islamic Revolution are too strongly seated to be damaged by such plans", said the Iranin official.
Shamqadri, who is also a filmmaker, said that production of more domestic and artistic films which portray Iranian achievements is a proper response to movies like "300".
"300," an ancient epic about the famous Battle of Thermopylae in Greek history, set a new record at the box office in North America this weekend
As if we needed more proof, this is why dictator's don't need "art advisers."
Labels: Middle East, Pop Culture
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