The ghastly incident shocked a nation, even coming as it did at the end of the chain murders: a string of high-profile assassinations of dissidents at home and abroad by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was one small part of a decades-long campaign of transnational repression waged by the Iranian state on its perceived opponents around the world. The rationale behind this drive was articulated, as above, by intelligence and terrorism expert Wilhelm Dietl in a new film on Farrokhzad’s killing, entitled Who Killed Fereydoun Farrokhzad? The Unsolved Murder Of Iran's Dissident Showman?
