Jihadi Du Jour: Oliver Stone to film life of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Last month they called each other names: Iran's president rejected an offer from director Oliver Stone to make a movie about him saying "It is right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S. but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan." Stone bristled back, "I wish the Iranian people well and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours." Oh, snap!

But they seem to have patched up their differences:

Reuters,
Iran president has "no objection" to Stone film
Ahmadinejad told a news conference: "I have no objection, generally speaking, but they have to let me know what are the frameworks. They should talk to my colleagues ... Principally speaking, I have no objection."

Stone has made movies voicing the frustration of the Vietnam War generation and in May revealed a political advertisement calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a demand Ahmadinejad regularly makes.

Ahmadinejad, the son of a blacksmith, rose through the ranks of Iran's ideologically driven Revolutionary Guards, became mayor of Tehran and swept to the presidency in 2005 pledging to share out Iran's oil wealth more fairly.