[AFP ] Egypt called in Iran's envoy in Cairo on Monday to lodge a formal protest over the airing of a documentary about the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. In the Iranian-produced documentary entitled "Assassination of a Pharaoh," which has already been shown on Iranian television, the filmmakers portray what they call "the revolutionary assassination of the treacherous Egyptian president at the hands of the martyr Khaled Islambouli," the Cairo daily Al-Masry al-Youm said. Islamic militant Islambouli was one of the soldiers who shot Sadat dead at a military parade in Cairo on October 6, 1981. He was hanged in 1982 and subsequently had a Tehran street named after him. The film says Sadat was killed for signing the 1978 Camp David accords that led to a 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
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