TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The hit American movie ``300'' has angered Iranians who say the Greeks-vs-Persians action flick insults their ancient culture and provokes animosity against Iran.

``Hollywood declares war on Iranians,'' blared a headline in Tuesday's edition of the independent Ayende-No newspaper.

State-run television has run several commentaries the past two days calling the film insulting and has brought on Iranian film directors to point out its historical inaccuracies.

``The film depicts Iranians as demons, without culture, feeling or humanity, who think of nothing except attacking other nations and killing people,'' Ayende-No said in its article Tuesday.

``It is a new effort to slander the Iranian people and civilization before world public opinion at a time of increasing American threats against Iran,'' it said.

Iran's biggest circulation newspaper, Hamshahri, said ``300'' is ``serving the policy of the U.S. leadership'' and predicted it will ``prompt a wave of protest in the world. ... Iranians living in the U.S. and Europe will not be indifferent about this obvious insult.''
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A cultural advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad branded the movie as an "American psychological warfare against Iran."

But Iranian culture is strong enough to withstand the assault, Javad Shamaghdari told the semi-official Fars news agency.

"American cultural officials thought they could get mental satisfaction by plundering Iran's historic past and insulting this civilization," he said.

"Following the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Hollywood and cultural authorities in the U.S. initiated studies to figure out how to attack Iranian culture.

"Certainly, the recent movie is a product of such studies."

Three lawmakers in the Iranian parliament have also written to the foreign ministry to protest the production and screening of this "anti-Iranian Hollywood film".
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I agree that this movie could be considered offensive and I think that we should go by the example that Tehran sets: Lets have Bush give a speach in D.C. and at the same time have tens of thousands chant "Death to Iran"and burn up some Iranian flags. That IS what they consider acceptable.....

Have a good one!:s4:
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