(New York Times) Thomas Erdbrink - Earlier this month, 130 foreign guests were brought to Tehran by the Iranian government to discuss what they said was the hidden agenda behind major American movies - an ideology they called "Hollywoodism." Former U.S. senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) said Hollywood had brainwashed its audiences into thinking negatively about Iran. Hassan Abbasi, an Iranian political strategist known for his theory that the American cartoon figures Tom and Jerry are part of a Zionist conspiracy, warned that popular TV series like "The Simpsons," "Lost," and "South Park" "entertain us, but indoctrinate us at the same time." Anti-Iranian "movies are weapons of mass destruction against humanity," said Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, a French lawyer who married the terrorist Carlos the Jackal in a prison ceremony in 2001.
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