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I am still laughing even though it is all nonsense, people will bitch if you hang them with a new rope too....amazing

Daily Variety and the New York Times contributed to this report.

Iran, which turned a deaf ear last year to protests over its attempt to rewrite history through a Holocaust conference, now is crying foul over what it calls a "fabrication of culture and insult" to Iranians in the Hollywood hit movie "300."

"Cultural intrusion is among the tactics always used by the aliens," a government spokesman charged in a statement made to the state FARS News Agency. "Such a fabrication of culture and insult to people is not acceptable by any nation or government and we consider this attitude as hostile."

The Iranian press has seized on the outrage, with one newspaper, Ayandeh-No, proclaiming: "Hollywood declares war on Iranians."

Javad Shangari, a cultural adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, attacked the film as being "part of a comprehensive U.S. psychological warfare aimed at Iranian culture," Daily Variety reported Wednesday.

"Everyone is starting to react. The DVD is already very available, and people are quite angry," one Tehran-based producer told Daily Variety. He doubted the film will ever be distributed in the region, though boot-leg copies already had made their way into many Middle East capitals.

An online petition calls the movie's distributor, Warner Brothers, "irresponsible, unethical and unscientific actions ... while announcing our disgust at such a heresy, we demand an immediate historical review and quick apology from the responsible people."

The film depicts the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae between 300 Spartan soldiers and an invading Persian army. Iranians are descendents of Persians, who are portrayed as evil. Of particular scorn for Iranians is the depiction of Persian Emperor Xerxes, who was descended from Cyrus, and is revered in Iran for having written the first human rights declaration.

The Iranian government hosted a two-day gathering last December, billed as a legitimate conference on the historical record and invited notorious Holocaust deniers and white supremacists from around the world, including former Ku Klux Klan leader, David Duke.

The Foreign Ministry held the event after Ahmadinejad claimed several times that the Holocaust was a myth, invented by Zionists to justify the establishment of Israel.

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Too bad for the Iranians that the story is true, documented and admired for 2500 years now and never challenged by any scientist of any country.

Looks like typical nuts regime to me...

ROGER that, business as usual

Were the Iranians protesting the historical fact or were they protesting a movie that was based on a comic book, based on a 1960’s sword and sandals movie “300 Spartans”.

Among the “facts” of the current “300” movie
The Persian army used attack rhinos, elephants and ogres
That Xerxes was a 7ft tall bald man with a shaved head and piercings galore.
That the Immortals wore kabuki masks.
The Spartans frown on men having ***** with other men.
That the Spartans fought sans breastplates and wore red capes in battle.
The Spartans only sent 300 men because the Spartan politicians wanted to surrender to the Persians.
That only the Spartans fought at Thermopylae.

Ok, now which part of these 7 items were actual historic facts?
Answer… none.

And Sparta was not a democracy.
Sparta was a totalitarian city-state with very limited democratic practices and had more in common with Nazi Germany than it does the USA, UK or even modern day Iran.

Persia under Xerxes, his father and grandfather was freer than Sparta ever was.

So while the “300’ tells an entertaining story.
But in the end it is not a truthful story.

WOW? You mean the Persians were not led by a 12 foot Club Queen???

Man..I thought that part of history was true too......NOT, it is just a damn movie - entertainment with computer enhancements, not the History Channel that pride themselves on accuracy...man o man! Thanks maddog

I agree with what Mal68 says except one part: the comparison of Nazis with Spartans. Spartans were a kind of their own. They were motivated by proudness and their perceived glory of battle and not hatred and imperialism as Nazis did. It wasn't necessary good or evil, just...spartan !

I think the movie made back in the early sixties was based on fact, this one is pure entertainment and Hollywood making a fast buck with graphics

^ Yeah- it was based word for word on Frank Miller's comicbook "300." some of the frames even match the panels in the book perfectly. Makes a sweet testerone-ridden movie. But people forget that it was made as a movie to get guys jacked up, not to retell history.

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