From “Oliver Stone’s Presence in Iran: Opportunity or Threat?” by Elham Rajabpur, published December 3 in the Iranian daily Keyhan News. Translated from the Farsi by the Open Source Center, a program of the United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

They say that a wise person is not bitten in the same spot twice. But it has become our custom to be bitten several times in the same spot and still not learn our lesson.

I am referring to the request by Oliver Stone, Hollywood’s famous director, to make a documentary on our country’s…