From
Gawker:
Iran continues to dislike Hollywood, it would seem. Actor Armin Amiri, who briefly appeared in the Iranian-flag-ripping movie The Wrestler, recently learned that his father was arrested in Tehran.
Amiri, also a former club owner, got a call from his hysterical mother, saying that his father had been arrested on suspicion of helping his son escape Iran 20 years ago, only so said son could go and blaspheme the nation terribly:
"They came and picked him up at 7:30 in the morning, and basically they were asking about me because of my role in The Wrestler.
"They were saying I was a traitor, and also because of my playing a gay character [in Factory Girl], the F-word got thrown around a couple times."
Mr. Amiri's father was eventually released unharmed.
More on this story from the
New York Observer and
ProWrestling.net. Here's the Google
listing.
Though Mr. Amiri's father may have been released, he should have never been arrested in the first place! For his son's bit part role in
The Wrestler? Are you shitting me? The Iranians were also upset Mr. Amiri played a gay character in the film
Factory Girl. In case you didn't know, the Iranian thugocracy doesn't like gays much. Just like the Nazis didn't like Jews. Not that you'd
hear that from our
Invisible Press!
Is anyone else smelling the
Gestapo in all this?
This is actually quite typical for totalitarian dictatorships like Iran's Thugocracy. They offend the world beyond belief with their
mayhem and
blood thirst, yet take
violent offense at every slight real or imagined.
Anyone who thinks that there is any hope for a civilized relationship with a bloodthirsty nightmare regime that
muzzles its press,
crushes dissent,
murders bloggers,
exterminates gays,
brutalizes women,
executes the children they aren't
conditioning and training for
martyrdom operations, responds to Obama's olive branch with
Death To America rallies, holds two of our
citizens hostage, and has been a pestilence on this earth both
at home and abroad for
thirty long hellish years had better
WAKE UP!
And all that's just the
SHORT list!
BTW My pieces are all dedicated to Roxana Saberi, until she is home safe and out of
today's Third Reich.
Here are the contacts. Again. For Day Nineteen of the
Roxana Saberi Hostage Crisis.
Here's the
White House. Here's the
State Department. Here's
Congress.
Many thanks to the North Dakota
House for their
efforts to free Roxana. 1 down,
56 to go. Many kudos also to
NPR,
ABC, the
BBC and the
CPJ for their 10,000+ signature
petition and
strong words.
As opposed to the
Invisible Press: the
New York Times,
CNN,
MSNBC,
FOX,
NBC,
CBS, and
AP.
You can give the hopelessly hopeful
Daily KOS a
HuffPo a shout-out, too.
Never forget Roxana Saberi. Let's get her out of that House of Torture in Iran and home where she belongs. Her parents are really worried for her, and so am I. Knowing the real Iran now, so should you.
FREE ROXANA SABERI! LIKE RIGHT NOW!!!
