a student group in Iran has recently produced a computer game that is a clever mix of the standoff over their country's nuclear programme, the mystery of missing diplomats in Lebanon and Iran's traditional animosity against Israel. Players must save captured Iranian diplomats and nuclear scientists from the clutches of us and Israeli abductors. The successful ones kill the us and Israeli soldiers, steal their laptops which hold secret information before liberating the scientists and the diplomats.

Computer games have come a long way off from the times when bizarre ogres or fantastic