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Iran plans to sue Argo filmmakers over anti-Iran propaganda
Iran plans to sue filmmakers that contribute to anti-Iran propaganda like Oscar-winning film Argo, CNN reports.Irans state-run Press TV reports that in addition its making its own film in response to Argo, the country is hiring a controversial lawyer to sue Hollywood filmmakers. I will defend Iran against the films like Argo, which are produced in Hollywood to distort the countrys image, French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre told Press TV, according to CNN. Iranian press has dubbed Coutant-Peyre an anti-Zionist lawyer. She is married to Venezuelan terrorist and self-proclaimed revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez or Carlos the Jackal who is currently serving a life sentence for killing two French policeman and an alleged informant in 1975 during a jailhouse ceremony in 2001. Coutant-Peyre also said that she plans to take legal actions against other films that have promoted Iranophobia, according to UKs The Guardian. It is not clear exactly who in Hollywood will be sued. Other films that have Iranians up in arms reportedly include 300, The Wrestler and the 1991′s Sally Field film Not Without My Daughter, according to Deadline. Posted by: tipper 2013-03-13 |
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