Foruhar killers used film ploy to enter home
TEHRAN, Jan 21 (AFP) - The murderers of Iranian dissident Daryush Foruhar
and his wife killed the couple after entering their home on the pretext
of making a film, a judicial official was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Mohammad Niazi, a prosecutor with a military court investigating the
case, also said that someone close to Foruhar, probably a member of his
secular nationalist party, accompanied the killers.
The couple were stabbed to death in their Tehran home on November 22.
Iran's intelligence ministry later admitted that rogue agents were
involved in the murder as well as the killing of two writers in early December,
and Niazi pledged this week that those responsible would face a public
trial soon.
The prosecutor told newspapers that when the killers entered the Foruhars'
home at night, the 70-year-old opposition leader opened the door dressed
in the official attire he always wore when receiving guests.
He said several accomplices followed Foruhar's "friend" and
another man presented as a student into the house and launched into a
political debate with Foruhar before asking him for permission to film.
His wife Parvaneh then went upstairs to change her clothes, Niazi said.
"The killers follow her upstairs and murder her. Then they seat
Foruhar in a chair and attack and kill him from behind," added Niazi.
The murders shocked the nation and led to a bitter war of words between
supporters of President Mohammad Khatami and his hardline opponents with
both sides blaming the other for the killings.
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