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@rezaaslan @vulture One of the all time modern racist Hollywood propaganda films. Horrific over acting, Sally Field should be ashamed.

@rezaaslan Saw a movie once where a Palestinans calmed such a mother by saying: "I'm Palestininan. We don't kidnap women, only planes."

@rezaaslan @gazellephant its like when I told my daughter you are not Inter Railing in Europe after I saw Taken

@rezaaslan @gazellephant this movie remains my mother-in-law's reference point for Muslims and my wife mentioned it when visiting a masjid.

@rezaaslan @gazellephant This movie is horrible and the world should realise the damage caused to Iran and American's perceptions of Iran!

@rezaaslan @gazellephant YUP, I've been cautioned w/ref to NWMD by strangers, coworkers, et al in early 2000's and my SO isn't even Iranian!

@rezaaslan No matter how beloved she is, everyone usually gives her a Razzie for that awful film.

@rezaaslan @gazellephant I hadn't thought of NWMD that way. Sounds like it's Iranians' own Midnight Express https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Express_(film) …

@rezaaslan @gazellephant That movie was patently racist and one sided - Hollywood at its racist worst

@rezaaslan @BookmanDan 37 years after the Revolution, the anti Iranian sentiment is still there. The victims however become millionaires!!!!

@rezaaslan No joke, my ex's mother and father didn't like me cause of that movie. She told me years later. we dated in 2001-2003

@rezaaslan so her mom is dumb..he should not date the daughter of dumb woman anyway....