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February 23, 2013

Another Hollywood Insult Aimed at Iran

Nazee Moinian, New York Daily News

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Iranians have increasingly become a mainstay in Hollywood, but they aren’t exactly pleased with the attention. From the portrayal of the beloved Persian emperor Cyrus the Great as a blood-thirsty charlatan in the movie “300” to the shallow Iranian-American characters in Bravo’s modern-day “Shahs of Sunset,” many Iranians have had enough with the backwards depictions of their country and culture.

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