The Life of Shahram Amiri: not So Fast, no Ursula Andress in Tehran……………
“TEHRAN - A government-linked Iranian studio said on Wednesday it plans to make a television movie about Shahram Amiri, the Tehran scientist who claims he was abducted by US spies last year. Amirhossein Ashtiyanipour, a director at Sima Film, said a "young group of movie school graduates" had been hired to write the script for the movie but gave no further details. The project was confirmed by Fars news agency, which reported Wednesday that Sima Film is to make a telefilm of the story of Amiri, "his hostage-taking and his return to Iran." Amiri, a scientist who surfaced in Washington last week after going missing for more than a year, claims he was abducted by US agents while on a pilgrimage in the Saudi city of Medina in June 2009………..”
It seems too fast, too soon, to make a film about him. Shouldn’t they wait to see what the “final” version of his story is? Shouldn’t they wait to see where he ends up? Is it not possible that he may be a secret supporter of the Green opposition movement? Wouldn’t some functionary or mullah have egg on their faces if that turns out to be the case after the film is made? Even James Bond had to be sold in book form before they found Sean Connery and Roger Moore and Ursula Andress living in a bikini. And, pray tell, how are they going to find an Ursula Andress living in a bikini in Tehran?
All this may tell some people, not necessarily me, that Amiri could have been an Iranian plant, that this explains the apparent confidence in his “story”.
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