To many it's still The Great White Hope. America is still known as the Land of Good and Plenty. There's a 24-hour AM radio station here in America and you can tell there are people coming here constantly from Iran. There is such little distance and difference between the countries, especially in the minds of the young. The two countries are in almost constant communication, especially with the Internet.
American films appear almost simultaneously in Iran, they go on video.
Independence Day was a huge hit. Whatever it's showing is only one side of the story. There's a CNN reporter, Christiane Amanpour, the highest paid reporter in the world, who did a series of reports on going back to Iran after 30 years away. It's true, though, that there's a great resistance in the media to showing anything from the Middle East. At first I didn't know you could write for publication.