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Iranian police announce they have arrested the “main murderer” of filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui and his wife

Iranian police announced Thursday that they had arrested the “main murderer” of director Dariush Mehrjui, who was stabbed to death along with his wife over a private dispute, according to local media.

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Iranian police announce they have arrested the “main murderer” of filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui and his wife

Iranian police announced Thursday that they had arrested the “main murderer” of director Dariush Mehrjui, who was stabbed to death along with his wife over a private dispute, according to local media. The “main” suspect in the murder “was identified among those arrested by the police, following technical examinations and cross-interrogations,” the police said, cited by the Tasnim news agency. No details were given about the person arrested. “Interrogations are still ongoing to identify the accomplices and hidden aspects of this murder,” she added.

A local justice official said that “personal differences between the accused and the victims” would be at the origin of the murder, without specifying which ones. Quoted by the legal agency Mizan Online, he denounced the numerous “fake news” circulating on sites and social networks on the involvement of certain relatives of the couple.

Emotions were strong in Iran after the announcement of the death of Dariush Mehrjui, pioneer of the advent of Iranian cinema, stabbed to death at the age of 83 on Saturday evening with his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar, a screenwriter of 54 years old, at their home in Karaj, west of the Iranian capital. Police announced on Tuesday that they had arrested ten people as part of their investigation, without providing details on the circumstances and motives of the double murder. Many Iranian filmmakers and artists attended the funeral of Mehrjui, author of The Cow in 1969, and his wife in Tehran on Wednesday, including Jafar Panahi, Massoud Kimiaï, Mohammad Rasoulof and Bahman Farmanara.

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi on Wednesday ruled out any "link between Mehrjui's murder and the serial assassinations" of dissident intellectuals in November 1998 committed by the country's secret police. These crimes had been attributed by the government to “uncontrolled elements” of the Ministry of Intelligence, who were sentenced to prison terms of up to life.

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