24 years have passed. Today is the 24th anniversary of the murder of Mohammad Mokhtari, an Iranian poet and writer.
Today, the 3rd of December, marks the 24th anniversary of the murder of Mohammad Mokhtari, an Iranian poet and writer, who was killed during the events known as the chain murders.
Mr. Mokhtari, a member of the Iranian Writers’ Association who 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 at the forensic morgue.
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 forensic morgue.
On December 9, 1998, the body of Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, a translator and another member of the Writers’ Association, was found under the Badamak railway bridge near Shahriar.