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The Plot to Kill Iranian Writers

In August 1996, a group of Iranian writers were invited to a literary event in Armenia. But there was a plot to kill them all on the way to their destination.

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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