The Iran 300 Complaint

I have been reading, over the past couple of days, about Iran's complaint about the movie 300.  I find it curious that when Frank Miller wrote the graphic novel back in....1999 or so...not many people were up in arms over it (never translated? No Iranian-American cared about the graphic novel?). 
I also bet there's lots of Americans that don't know enough to associate the ancient Persians with modern Iran (at least some Americans didn't know until Iran brought it up).

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I read one article indicating that bootlegs of 300 were available in Iran.  Why mention this?  To possibly indicate that Iranians only knew about the movie through illicit means without actually saying it?
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300 is a movie. 300 is a work of fiction. 300 is big screen entertainment.  300 is not policy setting.  Are fact and fiction really that hard to separate with this movie?

What I really find interesting is that the material in 300 has been around for years in graphic novel format.  It wasn't until 300 became a movie that a really big deal was made about the story.  It seems, in this case, the movie is the more powerful format.  I wonder what I'm supposed to get from all this.

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Start off strong and end rambling into nowhere.  Good Stuff.