WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says a film about his whistle-blowing website is propaganda designed to fan the flames of a war against Iran.
The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is due to be released in November.
Assange on Wednesday night said WikiLeaks had managed to get hold of a copy of the script of the DreamWorks movie.
And he doesn't like what he's read.
"It is a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks the organisation," the 41-year-old Australian told students in Oxford via a video-link from the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Photo: AFP
"But it is not just an attack against us – it is an attack against Iran.
"It fans the flames to start a war with Iran."
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