Iran considers suing Hollywood over ‘Argo’

Tehran: 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, said on Tuesday 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 to a closed audience in a Tehran theatre late on 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 US Embassy in Tehran in 1979.