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AFRICANEWSWIRE.NET (April, 19 2012) THE secretive exploits of Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, have long excited imaginations. Few more so than that of Abolqasem Talebi, an Iranian film-maker whose latest work, “The Golden Collars”, offers a vivid account of the civil unrest that followed Iran’s disputed 2009 presidential election.What had seemed to many like the violent suppression of dissent by a reactionary ruling clique was, in Mr Talebi’s telling, a just response to the murderous tactics of British spies sent to topple the Islamic republic. The film has none of the high-tech gizmos and polished brawn flexed by more celebrated fantasy spies. The villains assembled by Mr Talebi are a gluttonous gaggle of iPhone-addicted, BBC-besotted dipsomaniacs who will stop at nothing to return Iran to the dissolute days of the Pahlavi shahs.When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims electoral victory, these enemy agents provoke green-clad supporters of the reform candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, into a frenzy. This senseless mob attacks a local chapter of the Revolutionary Guards, so security chiefs have no choice but to dispatch the Basij militia on their...
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