I, too, gripped he edge of my seat while cheering the good guys and wishing all sorts of torments onto the baddies.
But this author is right. It's propaganda, and, I suspect, an orchestrated move to ready the western world if an attack on Iran eventuates.
Not too sure why we feel the need to attack Iran. The nuclear bomb scare is just that - a scare. Perhaps it's really simple. Perhaps the one message coming out of our post-democratic western world is, "Kiss our arse, or we will destroy you."
And now it seems that after actually capturing a drone a year or two back, Iran may have recently knocked one out of the sky. Not much kissing going on - might be some destroying coming up.

Oh my...a movie that takes liberties with historical facts..never...I wonder if the author has a clear memory of the events of 1979. I do, I reported on them.

First, the radicals who took over the US embassy were not connected with the Iranian revolutionary government, but in the chaos following the revolution they were allowed to get away with it. Let's face it, storming another country's embassy and taking its staff hostage is not the act of rational human beings. These were difficult times in the capital and the rule of law had not been properly established.

Second, Whatever the new rulers in Teheran might have said in public, behind the secenes they were as desperate to get the hostages released and out of the country as the US because they knew full well that if the radicals had had their way, subjected the hostages to a kangaroo court and had them executed Teheran would have been turned into a radioactive ruin. I have spoken to people in the US closely associated with the US Administration at the time. That was the scenario.

Thirdly, Argo was certainly designed for Western audiences, and of course it contained a slanted Western view of events. It was propaganda, just as all the anti-Western documentaries and films churned out by the Iranians are propaganda. It's the way of the world. Live with it.

The author thought the film was a yawn. Not my view or that of the audience I was watching it with. General agreement was that while its historical accuracy was in doubt, it was still a ripping yarn.

Hollywood is merely another branch of the U.S. propaganda machine which fills the world with lies about America and its supposed enemies. The American MSM is another offshoot which complements Hollywood.

But, amazingly, in a world where many people are supposedly 'educated', a majority of people swallow this rubbish and never, never question it.

Our Parliament is filled with such non-thinking creatures who, one day, will rue their obedience to the Evil Empire run out of Washington.

David G why don't you move to Iran?

Another apologist for islam uses the freedoms of the West to brag about the superiority of islam where no such rights exist. Such irony.

Iran is a terrorist state which seeks to destroy Israel, the only functioning democracy in the Middle East cesspool, and spread its barbaric religion throughout the world.

I thought this by the author was particularly resonant:

"For instance, in one shot, morosely veiled Iranian women are shown to be in military uniforms, a falsity also depicted in an earlier anti-Iran movie titled "Not Without My Daughter (1991)". After the elapse of thirty-odd years, you may find Iranian women in uniforms but only in female garrisons let alone on the streets. So, the depiction of Iranian women in military uniforms is but a figment of the writer's imagination."

Is the author suggesting that the burqa is fine but female involvement in the military is not, or what?

Cohenite, you seem fond of inventing lies.

Where did I advocate the superiority of Islam? I have little truck with Islam and its Sharia Law but then I have little truck with American imperialism with its use of torture, rendition, massacres, rapes, caging of prisoners, use of depleted uranium and drones either!

If you could get beyond thinking in term of stereotypes, you might be able to join a conversation that goes somewhere. Israel is a supposed democracy but it is also a nation that engages in forms of cruelty and barbarity that makes America look almost virtuous!

Cheers.

"Cohenite, you seem fond of inventing lies."

BS!

You openly despise the US and by inference the West. You descend to the lowest point in the Islam/West 'debate', which is making an equivalence between Islam and the US.

I didn't say you advocated "the superiority of Islam"; there is none to advocate; it is an atavistic blight; but you clearly think the US is no better.

That is wrong.

I support the West, including the US, warts and all; I oppose Islam and its apologists.

What is your position