Despite Hopes of Hollywood Visit, Iran’s Leaders Stick to the Same Script
NY Times / NAZILA FATHI
03-Mar-2009 (one comment)

An official delegation of Hollywood actors and filmmakers met with their Iranian counterparts in Tehran over the weekend, the first such visit to a country that banned American movies 30 years ago.But the Iranian government quickly crushed any cinematic illusion of an Obama-era thaw in relations, denouncing the meeting on Sunday and demanding that Hollywood apologize for its “insults and accusations against the Iranian nation.”

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just as soon as you pay us fair market value for all of the pirated versions of these supposedly offensive motion pictures that were never even distributed in Iran to begin with.