‘Foreign films which promote secular, feminist, liberal or nihilist ideas .. degrade oriental culture’. Iran's Islamic regime has slapped a ban on foreign films deemed to be "feminist", "secular" or pro-American, with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also pushing his vision of a Koranic society. A ruling by the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council, a watchdog headed by Ahmadinejad, bans "the distribution and screening of foreign films which promote secular, feminist, liberal or nihilist ideas and degrade oriental culture." Also forbidden are movies that feature "violence, narcotics consumption and propaganda for the world oppression", a term reserved for arch-enemy the United States,...