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.
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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 Mohammadifar, in their home near Tehran. That comes from Variety, which says the news was first reported by Iran’s state media organization IRNA, which had said that the couple was found by their daughter with stab wounds in their necks. The killer has not been identified, but IRNA said that someone had rece