Iran is More Than a Movie

The Academy Award winning movie “Argo,” which tells the story of six US Embassy staffers who hid in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis has incited diverse reactions. The movie tells a short chapter in the long and tense relationship between the US and Iran. These relations are currently more tense than ever. Who would have believed that this tense and strained bilateral relationship would last for 33 years? This represents a long period of disputes, diplomatic...

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Iranian Argo, Coming Soon

Ben Affleck’s Argo won the Oscar for Best Picture as expected. The film’s storyline builds on the real-life seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran by Iranian students in 1979 and the ensuing 444-day hostage crisis. Events unravel from the perspective of a CIA agent, played by Affleck himself, who rescues several American hostages stowed away in the Canadian Ambassador’s home. Unsurprisingly, radical Iranian authorities, who appear to be incapable of understanding Hollywood discourses...

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