24 years have passed. Today marks the 24th anniversary of the murder of Mohammad Mokhtari, an Iranian poet and writer.
Today, the 3rd of December, is the 24th anniversary of the murder of Mohammad Mokhtari, an Iranian poet and writer, who was killed in the events known as the Chain Murders.
Mr. Mokhtari, who was a member of the Iranian Writers’ Association and sought to revive it, left home on December 3, 1998, to go shopping and never returned. Nearly a week later, his lifeless body was identified by his son in the morgue of the legal medicine department.
On November 21 of the same year, Parvaneh Eskandari and her husband Dariush Forouhar, two well-known political and social activists, were killed in their home.
On November 25, the body of Majid Sharif, a writer and translator, was identified at the Tehran legal medicine department.
On December 9, 1998, the body of Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, a translator and another member of the Writers’ Association, was found under a bridge near the Badamak railway in the vicinity of Shahriar.