Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rejected a request by Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone to film a documentary about him.
Despite the director’s radical credentials, with documentaries about Fidel Castro and the Israeli-Palestine conflict to his name, Ahmadinejad branded him ‘part of the Great Satan,’ Iran’s standard term of abuse for the US.
Mahdi Kalhor, the president’s media adviser told the Fars news agency “While it is true that Oliver Stone is considered to be among the opposition in the US, the opposition is still part of the Great Satan.”
“We believe that the American cinema system is devoid of all culture and art and is only used as a device” he continued. “In the last two years, the global arrogance (the US and Britain) has made a lot of effort to portray their own image of Ahmadinejad, not the one which exists in reality. Hollywood and other Zionist media react to phenomena they don’t like through different processes.”
Ahmadinejad adviser Javan Shamghadri said Stone’s request could be reconsidered if Iranian film-makers were given the right to make a documentary about US president George Bush and the CIA, unimpeded.
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