"Ruled by kings for 2500 years"

Rating: 1/10 (25 February 2013)

In the opening bit the girls says that "after 2500 of being ruled by kings, Iranians elected Mossadegh..." Yes true, the great Mossadegh was democratically elected by the people. But the fact that they mention 2500 years of being ruled by kings, means that we had seen 2500 years of tyranny. Which is far from the truth. The Shah himself and his father whom had gotten deposed by the same Americans and Englishmen years earlier, only tried to modernize Iran. Mossadegh was of course better, but the Pahlavis both loved Iran and tried to make it a better place. What really happened was that the Shah himself turned on the people that had helped him come to power, aka the Americans and the British. Thus became an enemy to them, so they got rid of him the same way they got rid of Mossadegh.
This movie at best tries to demonize the Iranian/Persian nation as a whole, for having 2500 years of tyranny or whatever they want to call it. That's amusing calling Persia a tyranny when we had human rights coming from the founder of the Persian empire, when you had hundreds of thousands of slaves in your so called cradle of civilization, aka Greece. Not to mention the slave history of your own nation, America.