Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui killed in his home

Official investigations regarding the perpetrators and motives of these murders have not been publicly disclosed, and further details are not available. The motive for Dariush Mehrjui's murder has not been announced by the Alborz Province police thus far. Mehrjui was a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts. He was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s. His second film, The Cow, is considered to be the first film of this movement, which also included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai.