“Come and kill me.”
Famous #Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui challenged the Islamic Republic in #Iran for its injustices 1.5 years ago. He & his wife were knifed to death in their home yesterday. pic.twitter.com/NEu1ZAWTHK— Alireza Nader علیرضا نادر (@AlirezaNader) October 15, 2023
For many Iranians, the murder of Dariush Mehrjui and Vahideh Mohamadifar, months after the suspicious death of another well-known Iranian cinema director, Kiumars Pourahmad, shows signs of being state murders. Obviously, the regime that has killed thousands of opposition… https://t.co/TwRlUmLnx0
— Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza) October 16, 2023
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)
“Noted Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui and wife stabbed to death,” AFP, October 16, 2023:
One of Iran’s most prominent film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran. A provincial chief justice said Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, “were killed by multiple stab wounds to the neck”, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said.
According to Hossein Fazeli-Harikandi, chief justice of Alborz province near Tehran, Mehrjui sent a text message to his daughter, Mona, at about 9:00 pm local time (1730 GMT) inviting her for dinner at their home in Karaj, west of Tehran. But upon her arrival an hour and a half later, she found the bodies of her dead parents with fatal wounds to their necks.
Later in the day, police said “no signs of forced entry can be seen at the crime scene”, adding that “no damage has been done to the doors” of their home. However, they said “traces have been found” at the scene they believe to be “related to the murderer”.
According to Iran’s ISNA news agency, quoting the police headquarters, four suspects have been identified for their links with the case and two have been arrested. On Sunday, the Etemad newspaper included an interview with the film-maker’s wife saying she had been threatened and that their home had been burgled. “The investigation revealed that no complaints had been filed regarding the illegal entry into the Mehrjui’s family villa and the theft of their belongings”, said Fazeli-Harikandi.
In a statement, Iran’s minister of culture, Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaili, hailed Mehrjui as “one of the pioneers of Iranian cinema” and “the creator of eternal works”….
Biggles says
In view of surah 47, verse 4, that would seem to lead to the conclusion that the stabber thought that he was a Kafir.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I salute the murdered dissenters who publicly challenged the shariah cops to dare kill them. Not too many people have that courage!