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A BBC news article calls the movie 300 a "historical war epic" and brings to light the Iranian outrage over the film. The Hollywood picture shows a small Greek force resisting a Persian army.On the other hand, Iranians see the matter very differently. The We are hypocrite blog has an Iranian view point:
Calling this as ‘Hollywood’s war on Iraninas’ may be far fetched to many. When “300” depicts Persians as ‘demons, without culture, feeling or humanity’, it is just being truthful to the vision of a Graphic Novelist, not history. Second, not many in Hollywood toe George Bush’s line.What the Iranians can do is make a movie of their own, depicting a heroic chapter in their Nation and let the culture wars bloom, instead of bullets and misiles coming at you for all sides.
Top officials and parliament have scorned the film as though it were a matter of state, and for the first time in a long while, taxi drivers are shaking their fists in agreement when the state news comes on. Agreeing that 300 is egregious drivel is fairly easy. I'm relatively mellow as Iranian nationalists go, and even I found myself applauding when the government spokesman described the film as fabrication and insult. Iranians view the Achaemenid empire as a particularly noble page in their history and cannot understand why it has been singled out for such shoddy cinematic treatment, as the populace here perceives it, with the Persians in rags and its Great King practically naked. The Achaemenid kings, who built their majestic capital at Persepolis, were exceptionally munificent for their time. They wrote the world's earliest recorded human rights declaration, and were opposed to slavery. Cuneiform plates show that Persepolis was built by paid staff rather than slaves And any Iranian child who has visited Persepolis can tell you that its preserved reliefs depict court dress of velvet robes, and that if anyone was wearing rags around 500 B.C., it wasn't the Persians.It would probably be beneficial for both Americans and Iranians to read some unbiased history on the matter preferably from an outside source. If anybody knows of such, please post something in the comments.
Iran is upset over a google video description stating the Iranian city of Tabriz is in Azerbaijan when in actuality Tabriz is the Azeri provincial capital in Iran. Yesterday the description read, "This video shows Tabriz, a city in Southern Azerbaijan, currently in the territory of Iran." Today the description has been slightly altered: "This video shows Tabriz, a major Azerbaijani city, in East Azerbaijan (Iran)." Google has absolutely nothing to do with this, other than being the platform on which the video is hosted. They didn’t write the description. They didn’t approve the description. Frankly, it seems likely that they couldn’t care any less about the description. However, it doesn’t seem like the Iranian officials understand that at all, suggesting that this is a case of Google’s “interference in the affairs of another country,” while a newspaper claims that this is a “dubious” act by Google. Perhaps before they bash Google so hard they should actually understand how the system works and that Google has absolutely nothing to do with the content or description of the video. Of course, that’s not nearly as simple as just blaming Google.-Dippold
