“American moviegoers flocked to theaters this weekend to see Ben Affleck‘s long-anticipated thriller Argo, which has been generating headlines since it was first screened at the Toronto Film Festival last month…But inside Iran, where the decision by a group of Iranian students to storm the US Embassy and hold Americans hostage for 444 days is still controversial and vibrantly debated, the press has paid Argo scant attention. The few comments the film has received are generally negative – Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency called Argo “Hollywood’s latest failed attempt to confront the Islamic Revolution” – and replete with complaints that the movie portrays all Iranians as stereotypically aggressive and un… >>>
