Dariush Mehrjui: Acclaimed Iranian movie director and his spouse stabbed to dying in house

An award-winning Iranian film-maker and his spouse have been stabbed to dying of their house on the outskirts of Tehran, in response to state media.

Movie director Dariush Mehrjui and Vahideh Mohammadifar had been discovered with knife wounds to their necks, in response to the official IRNA information company, quoting a judiciary official.

His daughter, Mona Mehrjui, found the our bodies when she went to go to her 83-year-old father on Saturday evening.

The couple lived in a suburb about 19 miles (30km) west of Iran’s capital.

The report mentioned authorities had been investigating and gave no indication of a motive, though the spouse had complained a couple of knife risk on social media in current weeks.

While unclear if it was a random crime, the murders are prone to gasoline suspicions over the involvement of the authorities, coming within the wake of a lethal crackdown in opposition to opponents of the Tehran regime.

Mehrjui had been a long-time critic of state censorship and final yr angrily protested in opposition to a authorities resolution to ban his newest movie.

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His killing follows the current anniversary of the dying of Mahsa Amini within the custody of Iran’s infamous morality police, which sparked an rebellion and threatened the Islamic republic.

The response of the cleric-led authorities was brutal and bloody with greater than 500 folks killed, together with 70 youngsters.

Mehrjui, whose movies included The Cow and The Pear Tree, was often known as a cofounder of Iran’s movie new wave within the early Seventies that primarily centered on realism.

He obtained a collection of worldwide awards for his work.

Mr Mehrjui studied cinema on the University of California, Los Angeles, within the early Sixties.