Demigod

The great Persian serpent lies in wait

Let us face his army of immortals

We shall butcher those hunters of men's souls

and crush their nimbus of immortality

An anabis against the son of Darius

whose slave-army arrived on the beaches of Thermopylae

To extort earth and water

and treat us with perversity and death

Wretched is their Persian culture of shame and triviality

We shall never bow for the self-proclaimed Demigod

Let us butcher the legions of slaves and sorcerers

Wave after wave will shatter on our shields

Their steps slower, their breaths quicker

Detracted their morale, pile the dead high!

Our spears and swords shall pierce their armour

Cut their carotids! Break their spirits!

Down with the God-King Xerxes

A beast is approaching us

Its magnitude will blot out the son

We shall drink Persian blood

And find our glory in the final arrow hail

We blaspheme the tyrant

Earth and water

Under the banner of Hercules

For the eternal glory of Sparta

Death to the Persian invaders!

"300 is a United States attempt to humiliate Iran in order to compensate for its wrongdoings in order to provoke American soldiers and warmongers."

[Javad Shamghadri, cultural adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]

"300 is serving the policy of the US leadership and predicted it will prompt a wave of protest in the world... Iranians living in the U.S. and Europe will not be indifferent about this obvious insult."

[Hamshahri - Iran's biggest circulation newspaper]

Lines on the loss of the 'Kursk'