I'm not sure if this has been mentioned in our class or blog yet but I found this article both interesting and relevant to our class. The article states "Iran is planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning film "Argo" because of the movie's alleged "unrealistic portrayal" of the country, Iranian media have reported."
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 theatre late on Monday. We will be able to block distributors of the movie, force them to apologize and challenge them to confess that the movie is nothing but a sheer lie," the lawyer told semi-official Mehr news agency.
This comes a few months after Iran announced that they are boycotting the 2013 Oscars over the Innocence of Muslims film released in the US. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/25/iran-boycott-oscars-2013)
Article:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/03/2013312225936196889.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/13/iran-to-sue-hollywood-over-argo-and-other-oscar-films/
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