Iran used to brag about the fact that while its economic record was not great, at least its political record was better than what happened in the last years of the Shah. Now they don't really have that. They neither have the politics or the economics. The Iranian government gets very, very anxious about these satellite television channels that broadcast all these films into Iran. And there's always, you know, at the moment they're obsessed with, it's always BBC Persian, Iran, international, these sort of things.

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