‘Iron Island’
If anyone thinks that living in today’s Iran is fun, check out the film Iron Island, which my wife and I watched last weekend as part of our continuing Iran After 2001 Festival. (It is available from Netflix.) Most striking was the scene where a teenager is waterboarded by the central authority. For an odd ...
If anyone thinks that living in today's Iran is fun, check out the film Iron Island, which my wife and I watched last weekend as part of our continuing Iran After 2001 Festival. (It is available from Netflix.) Most striking was the scene where a teenager is waterboarded by the central authority.
If anyone thinks that living in today’s Iran is fun, check out the film Iron Island, which my wife and I watched last weekend as part of our continuing Iran After 2001 Festival. (It is available from Netflix.) Most striking was the scene where a teenager is waterboarded by the central authority.
For an odd double bill, I also watched the 1955 war film Dambusters. Very British. The needless (but historically accurate) use of the N-word was striking, but made the time feel as distant as the American Civil War. I mean, the British couldn’t come up with a better code word for a target?
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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