Iran and the US have not had diplomatic relations since Washington cut its ties with Tehran after Iranian militant students stormed the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.
Stone was not the only major Hollywood director to be rejected this week.
Tom Cruise, still smarting from a rejection by the German Defence Ministry, has now had his film crew barred from an ornate red-brick Berlin police station, capital-city police confirmed Monday.
While German politicians have said that Cruise, 44, is unwelcome because of his promotion of Scientology beliefs, the police said it was purely concerned that a film crew on the pre-war site would hamper police coming and going.
Cruise's German film team applied to film on location at the police station and yard for Precinct 52 in the city's Kreuzberg neighborhood, but police said this would obstruct the various departments working on the site.
Cruise is directing a movie, Valkyrie, about a true plot to blow up Adolf Hitler in 1944. The time-bomb exploded but a table deflected the blast and Hitler was only injured.
Cruise will play Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, an aristocratic German officer who led the plot, was instantly executed and hailed later as a hero.
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