The Plot to Kill Iranian Writers

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Recorded04 Aug 2015

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In August 1996, a group of Iranian writers were invited to a literary event in neighbouring Armenia. They boarded a bus to take them to Yerevan - but there was a plot to kill them all before they reached their destination. The scandal has been linked to a bigger plot known as The Chain Murders of intellectuals in Iran in the 1990s. Shahryar Mandanipour, one of the writers on the bus, remembers. (Photo: Iranian writer Shahryar Mandanipour, courtesy of S. Mandanipour)

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