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The first two killed were 70-year-old Dariush Forouhar (secretary general of the opposition party, the Nation of Iran Party), and his wife Parvaneh Eskandari, whose mutilated bodies were found in their south Tehran home on 22 November 1998. Forouhar received 11 knife wounds and Eskandari 24.
How Ahmadinejad found meaning in rap. How the brutal killing of an elderly couple in Iran 20 years ago exposed a series of murders spanning a decade.
Jan 5, 2011 · In the modern era, the first political assassination in Iran occurred on April 30, 1896, when Mirza Reza Kermani assassinated Nassereddin Shah (1831-1896) of the Qajar dynasty in Rey, a town...
Farrokhzad was one of dozens of Iranian dissidents and intellectuals killed inside Iran and abroad in the 1980s and 1990s in what became known as the Chain Murders. In several cases, Western ...
Dec 10, 2021 · Farrokhzad's grisly murder was widely seen as part of what became known as the "chain murders" -- a string of assassinations and disappearances of dozens of Iranian intellectuals carried out...
People began to suspect the murders were politically motivated. They were widely seen as part of a power struggle between Islamic hardliners. who still had significant influence over the intelligence services and reformists. allied to President Mohammad Khatami, whose push for greater freedom and
Jul 6, 2022 · The body of Majid Sharif, a 47-year-old writer and translator missing since 20 November, was found on the side of a road in Tehran. Pirouz Davani, a leftist activist, was ‘disappeared’ on 22 August the same year. His status is unknown, but widely considered to be a forced disappearance.
