Iran mulls suing Hollywood over Argo for "unrealistic portrayal"
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This film image released by Warner Bros Pictures shows Bryan Cranston (left) as Jack O’Donnell and Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez in Argo, a rescue thriller about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. 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. --FILE PHOTO: AP/WARNER BROS
TEHERAN (AP) - 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 in a closed audience in a Tehran theater late Monday.
