Sadat family threaten to sue over documentary film

THE family of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat has threatened to sue the Iranian producers of a documentary film portraying his 1981 assassination as the killing of a traitor by a martyr.

The documentary, entitled Assassination of a Pharaoh, has already been shown on Iranian television, the Al-Masry al-Youm newspaper reported yesterday.

The film, broadcast “in honour of the martyrs of the Islamic renaissance”, deals with “the revolutionary assassination of the treacherous Egyptian president at the hands of the martyr Khaled Islambouli”, the paper said.