Tehran - Iran started on Wednesday production of a
television series aimed at encouraging Iranians to support the
country's struggle to pursue its nuclear programme.
The 20-part Fataneh series follows similar initiatives such as a
computer game, stamp and even a banknote carrying the standard
nuclear energy emblem.
Fars news agency reported that the first day of filming started at
the uranium conversion plant in Tehran, central Iran.
Producer Hamid Akhundi said that all those involved in the
television series consider it as their duty to express necessity for
achieving nuclear technology through the language of art.
The story is focused on Iran's nuclear work within the framework
of an espionage theme, Fars reported.
In July, Iran's Islamic High School Society introduced a computer
game called Special Operations 85. The society said the aim of the
game is 'transferring ideological values such as sacrifice and
martyrdom to the pupils while focusing on the nuclear issue.'
The game follows two Iranian nuclear scientists who are arrested
and jailed by the United States while on a pilgrimage to southern
Iraq.
The hero of the game - an Iranian special agent - not only has to
save the Iranians but catch an Israeli-Iranian spy who transfers
classified nuclear information to the West.
Iran also plans to distribute a stamp as tribute to its success of
having reached the know-how for peaceful nuclear technology.
In June authorities released a new banknote that carries the
standard nuclear energy emblem and a saying by the Muslim prophet
Mohammed that 'Persians would acquire any knowledge even if it is in
the sky (seemingly unachievable).'
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has exposed nuclear energy work as a
national issue saying that Western opposition to Iran's nuclear
project was de facto rejecting a unanimous demand by the Iranian
nation.
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