Highlights: Dariush Mehrjui, a prominent Iranian filmmaker, was killed in his home near Tehran on Saturday along with his wife, according to the police.
Mr. Mehrjui, 83, who is considered one of the pioneers of Iranian cinema’s new wave movement, and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, 54, a screenwriter and costume designer, were found dead by their daughter when she came to the family house in Karaj, in Alborz Province, on Saturday night, according to Hanif Soroori, Mr. Mehrjui’s assistant. Their throats had been slit, he said.
Mr. Mehrjui was not considered politically controversial. It was not clear if he had any personal enemies. The authorities said an investigation was underway.
“It was not clear if they had any personal enemies.”
Rephrased by me: “It is not clear which Iranian government agency were their enemies.”
Hey, maybe it was just a film critic REALLY upset by his decisions on camera angles.
Government agencies usually don’t kill people and leave the bodies to be found. It suits their agenda to be more public about it, claim credit, and say what the victims did to become a target (assuming it’s not obvious). Random homicides don’t do much to control a population.
Check out all of the Russians that have mysteriously died.
Except those deaths aren’t mysterious at all. Russia has some kind of weird plausible deniability thing going on, but everyone knows when someone is killed for pissing off Putin and what they did that pissed him off. Making sure people know it could happen to them if they do or say the wrong thing is the point of those killings.
Too hard to make the connection.