Why Cannes screening of Persepolis, angers Iran
Nima Sharif
Is it not just a movie? Well, not if you were a Mullah.
As reported by various news agencies, the Iranian Mullahs’ have once again exposed to the world their limited tolerance for views that might be slightly different than theirs.
Apparently, Iran has sent the French Embassy in Tehran a letter of protest regarding the screening of an Iranian film maker’s movie, Persepolise, at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
The movie is about a child growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution.
The letter sent by the state-run Farabi Foundation in Iran reads, "This year the Cannes Film Festival, in an unconventional and unsuitable act, has chosen a movie about Iran that has presented an unrealistic face of the achievements and results of the glorious Islamic Revolution in some of its parts."
In other words, the Mullahs are trying to say, “Hey, we did not have a chance to cutup pieces that we didn’t like you to see, before you got to see it.â€Â
Iran – Here comes Sahraroodi
Mousa Afshar
"The international community must recognize participation rights of all countries, especially when it comes to problem solving for the whole world. They cannot eliminate one or two countries," Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister stated on Iranian media on May 4, 2007.
This was the mullah’s foreign minister’s assessment of the recent Sharm El-Sheikh Conference. This conference has been the largest international gathering about Iraq so far. The mullahs complain they were excluded from the conference even though they were allowed to attend.
The head of the Guardian Council, the top council above parliament, mulla Jannati made an even bigger objection and called the Sharm El-Sheikh conference “invalidâ€Â. He said: "Do the people of this region want their guardians to be from the US and the UK? Do they want these countries to make decisions for Iraq?"
Iranian assassin, member of delegation to Sharm El-Sheikh
Stop Fundamentalism, May 16 – Iranian opposition sources reported today that a member of the Iranian delegation to the Sharm El-Sheick Conference in Egypt, May 3-4, had an international warrant issued to his name for taking part in 1989 assassination of Iranian Kurdish dissident leaders in Vienna, Austria.
“Mohammad Jafari-Sahraroudi was sent by the Mullahs regime to attend the international conference and was seated on the same table with about 50 Foreign Ministers of different countries,†the Naitonal Council of Resistance of Iran reported today on its website www.ncr-iran.org.
Sahraroudi attended the conference as the delegation’s number two.
