'Virtual embassy, phony US gesture'
'Virtual embassy, phony US gesture'
head of Iran's Expediency Council's Center for Strategic Research Hassan Rowhani
The latest US efforts to launch a virtual embassy for Iranians was a "passive and unacceptable" bid to portray that Washington seeks friendship with the Iranian people, says an Iranian official.
Director of Iran's Expediency Council's Center for Strategic Research Hassan Rowhani insisted on Monday that the US move to set up a so-called virtual embassy amounted to a fake expression of friendship to the Iranian nation, but the matter is unacceptable to everyone,.
The US government has repeatedly adopted measures, including sanctions, intended to harm the Iranian nation in recent years, he told Mehr news agency.
The virtual US embassy for Iranians went online on December 6, more than three decades after the closure of the US diplomatic mission in Tehran.
On November 4, 1979, a group of revolutionary Iranian university students that described themselves as 'Students Following the Line of Imam [Khomeini],' took over the US Embassy in Tehran, insisting that it had turned into a hub of active espionage and scheming aimed at overthrowing the nascent Islamic Republic establishment.
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Golden Globe® winner Richard Gere leads a stellar cast in The Hoax, the thrilling and unbelievably true story of the man who almost pulled off the biggest literary con of the 20th century. When the charismatic Clifford Irving (Gere) convinces a major publishing house that Howard Hughes, the bigger-than-life billionaire recluse, has asked him to pen his authorized autobiography, Irving must concoct an elaborate scheme to prove his fake manuscript is real. Inspired by Irving's tell-all book and directed by Academy Award® nominee Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, 2000), this tensely comedic story is a wild ride down the slippery slope of a lie run amuck.The Hoax is a happy surprise. Surprise because, for once, having a film's release date bumped back half a year didn't mean it's a dog. Happy because Lasse Hallström's dancing-on-eggshells comedy about a notorious literary scandal of the 1970s is bounteously entertaining, with more solid laughs and certainly slyer wit than, say, the latest Will Ferrell romp.The subject is the world-shaking con an unsuccessful writer named Clifford Irving (Richard Gere) ran on some supposedly sharp cookies in the highest echelons of Manhattan publishing. Irving persuaded McGraw-Hill and Life magazine that ultra-reclusive tycoon Howard Hughes had selected him to transcribe his memoirs. It's pure balderdash, a desperate improvisation by a glib-talker who's perennially one jump ahead of the repo men. But the epic audacity of Irving's scam, the quicksilver way he weaves imaginary and accidental real-life details into beguiling patterns, and the legendary self-isolation of his supposed subject all conspire to keep the fiction afloat ... for a while.
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