Iran's president rejects biopic, saying Stone part of 'Great Satan'

by ryan | July 3, 2007 at 01:40 pm
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In contrast to the recent news of protests and nuclear threats, the belligerent Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has rejected US director Oliver Stone's request to make a documentary of him. 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has turned down a chance to be the subject of a documentary by Oliver Stone — because he thinks the Oscar-winning director is just a cog in the machine of the "Great Satan."

Even though the director has been an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy and various administrations, an Ahmadinejad spokesman said the president considers Stone to be part of the cultural establishment in the "Great Satan" — the epithet often used by Iranian hardliners to refer to the United States.

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