Iran Makes TV Series on Imam Musa Sadr

Director of the TV series said that a group of 15 has begun collecting helpful information and making interviews with Muslim and Christian political and religious figures in Lebanon since 5 years ago.

Information about the life of Imam Sadr was mostly oral and inaccessible but people who lived in villages in the north and south of Lebanon with memories of him visiting the regions provided the group with good information,” added Mohammad-Hussein Mahmudian.

“The TV series intends to familiarize viewers with the character of Imam Sadr as a successful religious and political figure, as well as with his status in Lebanon,” he said.

Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, Martyr Mohammad Baqer Sadr, as well as Imam Musa Sadr were among the eminent political religious figures of the contemporary world studied in seminarians, he added. The series is expected to be aired on television in spring 2004.

Imam Musa Sadr was kidnapped on August 25, 1978 when he traveled to Libya, following the official invitation from the Libyan government.

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