In this article, Shiva Rahbaran argues that the murder of the Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui is a continuation of the serial assassination (also called chain-murders) of intellectuals and artists in the 1990s Iran. She believes that this murder is yet another evidence for the the anti-modern nature of the regime and shows that the Islamic Republic will never be a modern, democratic state despite the superficial changes and so-called “reforms” that it has undergone for the past thirty years.
‘Come and Kill Me!’: Killing Mehrjui and the Repeat of 1990s Chain-Murders
