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The term "chain murders" was first used to describe the murder of six people in late 1998. The first two killed were 70-year-old Dariush Forouhar (secretary general of the opposition party, the Nation of Iran Party), and his wife Parvaneh Eskandari, whose mutilated bodies were found in their south Tehran home on 22 November 1998. Forouhar ...
Iranian Kurdish dissident Suspected Iranian agents 15 December 2015 Almere Netherlands: Mohammad-Reza Kolahi Samadi: People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) Suspected Iranian agents 29 April 2017 Istanbul Turkey: Saeed Karimian: Iranian television executive, owner of Dubai-based GEM TV: VAJA: 8 November 2017 The Hague Netherlands: Ahmad Mola Nissi
Neda Agha-Soltan (Persian: ندا آقاسلطان – Nedā Āghā-Soltān; 23 January 1983 – 20 June 2009) was an Iranian student of philosophy, who was participating in the 2009 presidential election protests with her music teacher, and was walking back to her car when she was fatally shot in the upper chest.
Two veteran Iranian Supreme Court judges known for handling high-profile cases were shot dead inside the court in Tehran, state-affiliated media reported. The Iranian judiciary said the assailant ...
Two senior Iranian judges have been shot dead in the country's supreme court, state media reports. ... and Mohammad Moghiseh were killed after an armed man entered the court, in the capital Tehran ...
On August 19, 1978, in the midst of the Iranian Revolution, more than 420 people were killed when the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran was set on fire during a showing of the movie The Deers. At the time the tragedy was blamed on the regime of Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, generated great popular anger and contributed to his overthrow. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Two Iranian Supreme Court judges were shot and killed while a third judge was wounded Saturday. The incident happened in Tehran on Saturday, according to the judiciary's Mizan news website.
Iranian authorities then attributed the deaths of Pirfalak and others to four men: Bahman Bahmani, Hossein Saeedi, Mahmoud Ahmadi, and Abbas Mujahed Kurkur. Two of the men were killed in an attack by IRGC forces, while Kurkur was later tortured to obtain a forced confession and was sentenced to death. [14]