Canadian monarchists are trying to blame the Iranian government for a killing apparently committed by supporters of the Shah. This type of inversion of reality underpins discussion of Iran, masking a fanaticism that likely contributed to the murder of Masood Masjoody.
On Saturday the Vancouver police reported the arrest of two suspects in the killing of Masjoody. Mehdi Ahmadzadeh and Arezou Soltani were charged with first degree murder.
A former SFU professor involved in many legal disputes, Masjoody disappeared in early February.
Opponents of the Iranian government immediately accused Tehran of murdering him. A UK Guardian headline, for instance, read “Iranian mathematician missing in Canada may have been targeted by Tehran, activists say.”
This frame dominated the discussion of his disappearance despite the fact Masjoody was suing the son of Iran’s former Shah Reza Pahlavi.
While the police haven’t cited any motive for the murder — if there was evidence of Tehran’s involvement it would have been mentioned — the two individuals charged are staunch monarchists. Masjoody had tweeted that the two individuals charged with his murder wanted to kill him because of his opposition to Pahlavi. There’s a photo circulating of one of them with Israeli, US and monarchist flags and another of both of them with Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. (more...)
Imperialist propaganda may have led to murder in B.C.
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