Meh, a couple of Iranian papers call it an outrage, big deal. Until Iranians are flooding the streets of Tehran in protest, its just the regime publishing its own personal opinion on the movie. Tons of Iranians have satellite/dvd players, they'll watch it on their own and love it, just like I did. This is not evidence of a Clash of Civilizations, its a semi-legitimate hard-core conservative regime pushing its (probably unpopular) personal opinion onto the public.
I don't get why the US doesn't just conquer the Middle East the easy way; drop 10 million satellite dishes/tv's into the region and blast the whole place with nothing but 200 channels of 24/7 Western entertainment (maybe broadcast in Farsi, like 'Everybody Hates Abdullah' or 'Beauty and the Sheik'). They'll be eating McDonalds and hitting the waterslide parks in no time... they just don't know it yet.
Why even bother responding to what the Iranian government thinks about the movie? Why legitimize their obviously outdated and politically motivated beef?
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