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Reuters contributed to this report.

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Iran's Art Bureau is planning to produce a film presenting its own version of the events depicted in Ben Affleck's, which tells the story of a 1980 CIA operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.Iran's Mehr News Agency quoted the film's director, Ataollah Salmanian, as saying on Thursday that the film, entitled, would be "an appropriate response to the ahistoric film.”Salmanian said that the film would be based on eyewitness accounts of the events. He added that shooting was slated to begin next year.The Iranian regime classifiedas "anti-Iranian" upon its US premiere in October, according to Mehr.is based on the true story of CIA operative Tony Mendez's mission to rescue six Americans from Iran during the height of the 1979 hostage crisis by helping them pose as a Canadian film crew making a fictitious film.took best picture honors at the Critic's Choice Awards earlier this month, and Affleck won best director honors.