Among the 2013 attendees was former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel, who had previously been a frequent interviewee of Iran's state-sponsored PressTV.[4] Gravel said that the U.S. film industry had brainwashed the American public regarding what to think of Iran.[2] He also said the conference featured "various elements of extremes", some of whose attitudes against Israel and Zionism were "off the charts".[4] Another attendee was Iranian political strategist Hassan Abbasi, who is known for Zionist conspiracy theories involving the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry[1] and who said of watching American films, "The images you see pollute your sexual fantasies."[1] E. Michael Jones, editor of an American conservative Christian magazine, said he was impressed by how the host country had desexualised their culture: "There was a reason Iranians burned their cinemas during the revolution."[1] Abdul Alim Musa, said Islamic peoples were being subjected to a "cultural invasion" by Western film.[1]