Reports: Iran mulls suing Hollywood over `Argo'

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Posted: 03/12/2013

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian media say authorities are planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning "Argo " because of the movie's allegedly "unrealistic portrayal" of the country.

Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, are reporting that French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. Coutant-Peyre is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal. 
 
The decision on the lawsuit came after a group of Iranian cultural officials and movie critics screened the film in a closed audience in a Tehran theater late Monday. 
 
Iranian officials in February dismissed "Argo" as pro-CIA, anti-Iran propaganda.
 
The movie is based on the escape of six American hostages from the besieged U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. 
 

Copyright Associated Press

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