American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan is a film, directed by Jean-Daniel Lafond

Jean-Daniel Lafond

Jean-Daniel Lafond CC is a French-born Canadian filmmaker, and the husband to the former Governor General Michaëlle Jean, making him the Viceregal Consort of Canada during her service.-Biography:...

, about an exile

Exile

Exile means to be away from one's home , while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return...

d American

United States

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 political activist named Dawud Salahuddin

Dawud Salahuddin

Dawud Salahuddin, sometimes spelled Daoud Salahuddin is an African-American convert to Islam most famous for his 1980 killing of Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident and critic of Ayatollah Khomeini, and his exile in the Islamic Republic of Iran.-Biography and activities:Dawud Salahuddin was...

 (also known as David Belfield and Hassan Abdulrahman). Belfield has confessed to assassinating a former Iran

Iran

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ian diplomat, who supported the Shah of Iran

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, Shah of Persia , ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979...

, in 1980.
Belfield unexpectedly appeared playing an exiled American political activist in the 2001 film Kandahar.
Lafond then traveled to Iran to film the documentary about him.