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To: lorne who wrote (8702)	7/4/2007 9:00:54 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Respond to of 20106

Iran's president rejects biopic, saying Stone part of 'Great Satan' Last Updated: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 \| 12:46 PM ET CBC Arts 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. Oliver Stone, shown in 2006, said after Iran rejected his pitch: 'I have been called a lot of things, but never a Great Satan.' (Stuart Nimmo/Canadian Press) "It is true that [Stone] is known as a dissident in the U.S., but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan," Mehdi Kalhor, the president's media adviser, said according to the Iranian news agency Fars. The term Great Satan was first given to the U.S. by Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, after the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew the country's American-backed Shah. The Los Angeles Times reports another Ahmadinejad adviser said the president would allow Stone to make a documentary about him only if the White House allowed an Iranian filmmaker to make one about President George W. Bush. Kalhor said the 60-year-old director — who has won Oscars for Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon — sent his proposal more than a year ago. Kalhor went on to further criticize American culture: "We believe that the American cinema industry lacks culture and art." "I have been called a lot of things, but never a Great Satan," Stone responded in a statement. "I wish the Iranian people well, and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours." The writer and director has made biopics about former U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, and a documentary about Cuban President Fidel Castro. Last year in Spain, he said he was "ashamed" of his country over the war in Iraq and U.S. policies in response to the al-Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Stone recently