By Jason Apuzzo. We want to alert Libertas readers that Iranium, the controversial new documentary on the Iranian nuclear program – and a film about which we reported here several weeks ago – will be available for free viewing right here at Libertas (in the embedded player below) on Tuesday, February 8th. IMPORTANT: You must be one of the first 50,000 people to sign up in order to watch the film for free on Tuesday, February 8th, so make sure to sign up today!
As Libertas’s Govindini Murty reported here a few weeks ago, a screening of Iranium by the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa was recently canceled by the Library and Archives Canada after the Library received an official complaint from the Iranian government. (The screening was subsequently re-scheduled and took place yesterday.) A media firestorm blew up in Canada over the cancellation of the film’s screening – with the Prime Minister’s office, the Minister of Heritage Canada, and the Immigration Minister all getting involved and eventually backing the film’s screening. We’re pleased that Canada refused to be intimidated by official Iranian complaints.
Iranium is a 60 minute documentary featuring interviews with leading politicians, Iranian dissidents, and experts covering: Iran’s threat to peace in the Middle East, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation. The film documents the development of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, beginning with the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the ideological leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini. The film then tracks Iran’s use of terror as a policy weapon, beginning with the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis, through Iran’s support of insurgent terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iranium also deals with the Iranian regime’s brutal treatment of its own citizens, and the Iranian people’s desire to rejoin the international community. The film concludes by outlining troubling scenarios the greater Middle East and the Western world may face should Iran cross the nuclear threshold.
You can read more about the film here at its website.
Posted on February 7th, 2011 at 10:32am.
I’ve just watched the movie and give it a five star rating for high quality truth telling about a dangerous threat to national security that must be addressed as soon as possible by ruthless application of military force.
Cool.
Cool. I’d love to see it.
Give it a try …