Renowned Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were stabbed to death in their home by an unknown assailant, state media reported on Sunday.
The official IRNA news agency quoted judicial officer Hossein Fazeli as saying Mehrjhi and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar were found dead with knife wounds in the neck.
Fazeli said the director’s daughter, Mona Mehrjui, found the bodies while visiting her father at the house in a suburb about 30 kilometers west of the capital Tehran on Saturday evening.
The report said authorities are investigating and are not suspecting a motive, although the woman had complained about a knife threat on social media in recent weeks.
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Mehrjui, 83, was known in the early 1970s as a co-founder of the Iranian film New Wave, which focused primarily on realism. He received numerous awards, including a Silver Hugo from the 1998 Chicago International Film Festival and a Golden Seashell from the 1993 San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Mehrjui studied cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles in the early 1960s.
In this July 7, 2015 photo provided by Iranian student news agency ISNA, Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar attend a film directors meeting in Tehran, Iran. Abdolvahed Mirzazadeh / AP
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