BY: WC WINDBAG

This is so rich, you would think that only “commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns” from the Left Coast would have thought this up.

The art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged a visiting Hollywood delegation to apologise for “insults and slanders” about Iranians in films, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.

“(Iranian) cinema officials will only have the right to have official sessions with… Hollywood movie makers when they apologise to the Iranians for their 30 years of insults and slanders,” Javad Shamaghdari said.

“The Iranian people and our revolution has been repeatedly unjustly attacked by Hollywood,” he said, citing ‘300′ and recent Oscar nominated movie ‘The Wrestler’ as among offending films.

I’m sorry, I am missing something? Isn’t Iran the country whose government for 30 years has held regular, organized protests in the street calling for “Death to America”, and burning our Presidents’ likenesses in effigy? Hasn’t Iran been providing the likes of Hamas the money to fund children’s programs on Palestinian TV depicting Jews and Americans as sub-human, blood-hungry monsters?

But who knows… change is in the air, and Iran can sense it…

“We will believe (US President Barack) Obama’s policy of change when we see change in Hollywood too, and if Hollywood wants to correct its behaviour towards Iranian people and Islamic culture then they have to officially apologise,” Shamaghdari added.

Yeah… we’ll get right on that, Mahmoud and Javad.

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