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Masood Masjoody was worried he was being targeted for his criticism of Tehran

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Masood Masjoody was a troubled man. Obnoxious, outlandishly paranoid and vexatiously litigious, the murdered 45-year-old former sessional math instructor at Simon Fraser University was long active in Iranian diaspora circles. He was ferociously militant in the cause of Iranian democracy.

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The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team came upon evidence suggesting foul play immediately after Masjoody’s neighbours reported to Burnaby RCMP on Feb. 2 that he had gone missing. On March 6, IHIT investigators assisted by police dogs and a search and rescue team discovered Masjoody’s remains in Mission, about an hour’s drive east of Metro Vancouver.

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On Friday, IHIT announced first degree murder charges against 48-year-old Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi and 45-year-old Arezou Soltani, both of whom were well acquainted with Masjoody as activists on the margins of Metro Vancouver’s Iranian diaspora. In an online post last year, Masjoody claimed that Razavi and Soltani were “pursuing my murder.”

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According to IHIT Sgt. Freda Fong: “We understand this case has impacted the Iranian community and has generated widespread concern and public interest.”

You could call that an understatement.

Last year, owing to an acceleration in the Iranian regime’s determination to pursue its interests in Canada, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service moved to “reprioritize” its operations “to counter the actions of Iranian........

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