[Defiant]

Here, I'll help out:

[Bombard]

Cyrus the Great was a Persian and was born in what is now southern Iran. He first moved against his then overlords the Medes who lived in what is now northern Iran. He then moved against Babylon in what is now Iraq and then against Lydia in what is now Turkey. He finished life campaigning against the Scythians in what is now southern Russia. That is historical fact Very little of his life was spent in what is now Iraq. So why was this filmmaker so keen to be in Iraq? One wonders what his true motives were or are.