{"id":17920,"date":"2013-03-12T20:55:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T00:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17920"},"modified":"2013-03-12T20:55:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T00:55:56","slug":"sued-over-argo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17920","title":{"rendered":"Sued Over Argo"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Argo<\/a>” won the Academy Award for Best Picture<\/a> this year. The film tells the story of six Americans<\/a> smuggled out of Iran<\/a> after the Iranian revolution<\/a>. The movie is not entirely accurate–it’s a movie–but the basic story follows the history of the events (for some details on what is true and what is not, see rightwinggranny.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a> is reporting today that Iran is planning to sue Hollywood<\/a>, claiming that the movie portrays the country of Iran in an unrealistic way.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The decision on the lawsuit came after a group of Iranian cultural officials and movie critics screened the film in a closed audience in a Tehran<\/a> theater late Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The gathering, titled “The Hoax of Hollywood,” discussed various legal aspects of filing a lawsuit, media reports said, without providing details. It remains unclear what specific charges Iran could raise and what court Tehran could turn to if the action goes ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Those at the meeting dismissed “Argo” as a “violation of international cultural norms.” A statement issued after the gathering said that “awarding an anti-Iran movie is a propaganda attack against our nation and entire humanity.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The statement did not clarify how the movie was allegedly unrealistic, but officials have accused “Argo” of depicting Iranians as “too violent.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have no way of knowing if the violence depicted in “Argo” is exactly what happened. I do know that there were some areas in the movie that represent the ‘poetic license’ of the filmmakers. I also know that the people who were in Iran during the 1979 revolution and the news photographs from that time indicate that the violence shown was typical of what went on.<\/p>\n

The thing to keep in mind here is the effort on the part of the Iranian government<\/a> to stop any art or speech that portrays them in a negative light. Freedom of speech in Iran<\/a> died in the revolution of 1979. The violence that was depicted in “Argo” was part of that picture.<\/p>\n

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