Is Oliver Stone a part of the Great Satan?
GABRIEL BUOYS/AFP Apparently, the fact that Oliver Stone is a frequent critic of U.S. policy does not win him any points in Tehran. The office of Iran’s president recently turned down the Hollywood director’s request to make a film about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mehdi Kalhor, Ahmadinejad’s media advisor, explained the decision on Sunday: It is right ...
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Apparently, the fact that Oliver Stone is a frequent critic of U.S. policy does not win him any points in Tehran. The office of Iran’s president recently turned down the Hollywood director’s request to make a film about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mehdi Kalhor, Ahmadinejad’s media advisor, explained the decision on Sunday:
It is right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S., but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan.”
According to the LA Times, Stone shot back:
I’ve been called a lot of things, but never a ‘Great Satan,’ … I wish the Iranian people well and I only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours.”
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