We would not want to trivialize the troubles and difficulties of the people of Iran. It’s a pretty scary place in a lot of respects, with few civil rights that we enjoy and the struggle for freedom has been ongoing.
On the other hand, the ayatollahs who actually run things keep appointing total loonies, who keep things interesting.
Anyway, Iran is still butthurt over “Battlefield 3,” and their state-run game developer (of course they have a state-run game developer) wants to get back at the U.S. by, uh, making a video game about attacking Tel Aviv, creatively called “Attack on Tel Aviv.”
Why? Behruz Minaii explains it best:
“The United States is governed by the Zionist Regime so ‘Attack on Tel Aviv’ would make Americans angrier than a game about an attack on Washington,”
No, Behruz, Obama is a secret Muslim, part of the huge Muslim Illuminati conspiracy. Don’t you watch Fox News, guy?
We put it at about 100 to 1 this game will actually get made, but it’s fun to see a repressive regime demonstrate it has no idea what would actually tick off Americans. Or that the developer of “Battlefield 3″ happens to be Swedish.
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Have they even seen Call of Duty? It’s all *about* Western cities getting their shit wrecked. We’re a pretty desensitized audience at this point.
To be fair, there is a valid point in there somewhere: there’s no actual reason BF3 had to take a joyride to Iran and blow some $#!t up. They could have just made up some Middle East country and given it a tasteful name, like the Transformers did with Carbombya.
Unfortunately, everybody in the Iranian government is apparently too religious to care or too crazy to actually make that point, let alone discuss it in a mature, intelligent fashion.