On Saturday, October 14, Dariush Mehrjui, a renowned Iranian film director, and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadi-Far, were tragically murdered in their home in Karaj under suspicious circumstances. The Iranian state media attributed this heinous crime to unidentified perpetrators, though Iran’s society, which still has a fresh memory of the chain murder series of the 1990s … Continue reading Iran’s 1990s Chain Murders Pattern Resurfaces in the Tragic Death of Filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui