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Iranian film director, wife stabbed dead
Updated On: 16 October, 2023 07:24 AM IST | Tehran | Agencies
Authorities were investigating but gave no speculation on a motive, though the wife had complained about a knife threat on social media in recent weeks
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Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. Pic/AP
Noted Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were stabbed to death in their home by an unknown assailant, state media reported.
The official IRNA news agency quoted Hossein Fazeli, a judiciary official, as saying that Mehrjhi and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were discovered dead with knife wounds in their necks. Fazeli said the director’s daughter, Mona Mehrjui, found the bodies when she went to visit her father on Saturday night at the home in a suburb about 30 km west of the capital, Tehran.
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