TEHRAN -- French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre has said that she will make the producer of the Iranian hostage drama “Argo” to Iran.
The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has recently announced that it has hired Coutant-Peyre to file a lawsuit against the producer of “Argo” and the Hollywood companies over the production of films which promote Iranophobia.
“Lawyers cannot be certain whether they would win or not in the beginning of a case,” she said during a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
“However, Iran’s decision to sue the Hollywood company is valuable and it could attract public attention… and also arouse the curiosity of people and make them think about the realities and the lies,” she added.
“This is the only way to struggle against their widespread propaganda. We do not seek compensation in the lawsuit, but we want to challenge the Hollywood producer (of “Argo”) to make him apologize for their lies about a country,” she stated.
“Argo”, the Warner Bros. drama about the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran, was officially viewed as an “anti-Iranian” film in Iran after it began its premiere in the U.S. on October 12.
Coutant-Peyre said that since Warner Bros. has a branch office in France, the case will be heard in that country.
“An American lawyer will collaborate with me in this case and we can also pursue the case in other countries,” she added.
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