According to the NY Times Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has rejected Oscar winning filmaker Oliver Stone’s offer to make him the subject of a documentary. The Associated Press reported that Mehdi Kalhor, media adviser to the president said he had sent a “negative answer to Mr. Stone.” “It is right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S., but opposition in the U.S. is part of the Great Satan,” Mr. Kalhor said, adding, “We believe the American cinema lacks culture and art.”

A publicity representative for Stone responded by saying: “I have been called a lot of things, but never a great satan. I wish the Iranian people well, and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours.”