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    Iran president has "no objection" to Stone film

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    Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:03pm EDT
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles while attending a religious ceremony in Tehran August 27, 2007. Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday he had no objection in principle if Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone wanted to make a film about him. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday he had no objection in principle if Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone wanted to make a film about him.

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    Western media reports have said the U.S. director, who has made films about former U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, wants to produce a film about Ahmadinejad, a virulent critic of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

    Asked how he would respond to a request, Ahmadinejad told a news conference:

    "I have no objection, generally speaking, but they have to let me know what are the frameworks. They should talk to my colleagues ... Principally speaking, I have no objection."

    Stone has made movies voicing the frustration of the Vietnam War generation and in May revealed a political advertisement calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a demand Ahmadinejad regularly makes.

    Ahmadinejad, the son of a blacksmith, rose through the ranks of Iran's ideologically driven Revolutionary Guards, became mayor of Tehran and swept to the presidency in 2005 pledging to share out Iran's oil wealth more fairly.
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