Ben Affleck’s Argo: An embrace of US foreign policy

By Dan Brennan; 24 October 2012 – WSWS
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/argo-o24.shtml

Directed by Ben Affleck, screenplay by Chris Terrio

Argo, a new political thriller starring and directed by Ben Affleck, has earned critical praise and a number two spot on the box office charts for the second straight week. The film is based on declassified information about a little-known episode during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1980.

In the midst of the Iranian Revolution against the Shah, Washington’s brutal puppet, a group of demonstrators stormed the US embassy in November 1979, capturing and holding 52

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