Prominent Iranian Film Director Dariush Mehrjui, Wife Stabbed to Death

Acclaimed Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were stabbed to death in their home by an unknown assailant, state media reported Sunday (15 October). The official IRNA news agency quoted Hossein Fazeli, a judiciary official, as saying that Mehrjhi and his wife 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 Saturday (14 October) night at the home in a suburb about 30 kilometers west of Tehran.