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627646, Affleck wasn't overly sympathetic to the Iranians,
Posted by The Analyst, Sun Oct-14-12 07:00 PM
but at least he made a concerted effort to provide context for why they were mad at the U.S. This is not a "they hate us for our freedom" type of movie. It's more of a "they hate us because we manufactured a coup to overthrow a democratically elected leader and installed a brutal, oppressive dictator because it was in our own national interest and then offered the guy asylum after he finally lost power" type of movie.