KARACHI: Iran labels Ben Affleck’s Golden Globe and Oscar-winning film “Argo” "unrealistic" and says it’s pro-CIA, anti-Iran propaganda.
Iranian media, including the pro-reform daily “Shargh” reported that “anti-Zionist" French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre has been hired to sue Hollywood over misrepresenting the Islamic Republic and promoting “Iranophobia".
The film is a dramatization of the 1980 US hostage crisis. It describes CIA’s secret mission to rescue six American diplomatic escapees from revolutionary Iran.
Coutant-Peyre spoke out about the issue in Tehran’s Palestine cinema at a conference titled “The Hoax of Hollywood.” In attendance were Iranian officials including the Minister for Culture and Islamic guidance, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini.
Not many details about the lawsuit were disclosed. However, Iranian officials reportedly aim to impede distribution of the film, force its creators to apologize, have them publicly admit that the movie misrepresents facts, and reply in kind by producing their own film version about the hostage event.
Iran has expressed resentment against Hollywood before too. In 2009, Iran asked a group of visiting Hollywood actors and officials, including Annette Bening, to apologize over their films “300” and "The Wrestler." Iranians felt that the Greeks vs. Persians movie “300” abused their ancestors’ traditions, while the latter was offensive presumably because of a wrestling match in which a character damages the Iranian flag while the audience chants “USA!”
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