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” They had their throat’s slit…that’s pretty personal.
“It was not clear if they had any personal enemies.”
Rephrased by me: “It is not clear which Iranian government agency were their enemies.”
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.
Hey, maybe it was just a film critic REALLY upset by his decisions on camera angles.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
Hamid Hadavand, the Alborz police chief, said in an interview with the Iranian student news agency ISNA that a motive for the killings remained unknown.
In the months leading up to the 1979 revolution, Mr. Mehrjui filmed the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile in France, who proved to be a valuable ally once he came into power.
After the revolution, Mr. Mehrjui’s films centered around chic middle- and upper-class characters in Tehran as they discussed religion, art and money.
In one of his most consequential films, “Hamoun,” a middle-aged intellectual experiences a mental breakdown as his marriage unravels.
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I’m not making any assumptions about who did this since we have zero information. But. As an aside. I do expect that in the future as information comes out about who was behind the Israeli attack, those people will be meeting Israeli intelligence operatives first hand. And I speculate that some of those people are going to be in Iran.
“I’m not making any assumptions”
proceeds to make assumptions
I didn’t make assumptions about that specific event because it could be totally unrelated. I didn’t imply I never make assumptions or that the following statement would not include assumptions about something else.
You know sometimes people try to chime in with smartass comments but they fall flat because they don’t have basic reading comprehension skills.
