The country's media has reportedly condemned the film in part because of a fight sequence in which Rourke's character, Randy 'the Ram' Robinson, battles an opponent dubbed the Ayatollah.
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It accused the Hollywood studio of participating in a campaign of "psychological warfare", "plundering Iran's historic past and insulting its civilization", and depicting Persians as "ugly and violent creatures rather than human beings".