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.

  • @RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip
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    -321 year ago

    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.

      • @RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip
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        -91 year ago

        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.