How not to win friends in a conservative Muslim nation:

In a brief statement Sunday, March 1, US film actress Annette Bening, in Tehran with a Hollywood delegation, said: “I hope we can be a bridge to open a dialogue between out two countries, confirming DEBKAfile’s report that president Barack Obama had launched his bid for talks with Iran with a piece of “Hollywood diplomacy” 38 years after Richard Nixon opened the door to China with a ping-pong team.

Don’t the people who planned this trip realize that it’s precisely the degenerate culture represented by Hollywood that the mullahs want to send straight to hell?

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