Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui and his wife have been found dead in their home in Karaj, Iran, The New York Times reported Sunday. Their bodies were found Saturday night by their ...

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Iranian state media has reported that Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar were killed in a stabbing attack after publicly bristling with the Iranian government over censorship of films. Dariush ...

The Independent Iranian Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) has written to AMPAS to protest the omission of murdered director Dariush Mehrjui from the In Memoriam segment of the Academy Award on Sunday ...

Dariush Mehrjui, a prominent Iranian filmmaker, was killed in his home near Tehran, Iran on Saturday along with his wife, according to police. Mehrjui, 83, who is considered one of the pioneers of ...

Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui, whose 1969 “The Cow” opened up a new era in Iranian filmmaking, and his wife have been found stabbed to death in their home outside Tehran, Iran’s state media ...

Dariush Mehrjui, the director who helped lead a new filmmaking movement in his native Iran with films like 1969’s The Cow, was found stabbed to death this weekend alongside his wife, Vahideh ...

Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar were found stabbed to death on Saturday — Abdulwahed MIRZAZADEH One of Iran's most prominent film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was ...

Some activists and opposition figures in Iran have drawn parallels between the recent killing of acclaimed Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife and similar killings in the past that were ...

Noted Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were stabbed to death in their home by an unknown assailant, state media reported Sunday. The official IRNA news agency quoted Hossein Fazeli, ...