“‘For Iranian men of my generation and American moms of my mother-in-law’s generation, this is a film that has seared itself into our consciousness,’ says Reza Aslan, an Iranian-American author and religious scholar. Upon the film’s 25th anniversary, it’s an interesting case-study of how early misrepresentations of an ethnicity in popular culture – one that the American public previously had no concept of – never really leave them.”