{"id":539749,"date":"2026-03-16T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539749\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:34:13","slug":"suspects-in-b-c-killing-of-vocal-iran-critic-to-make-vancouver-court-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539749\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspects in B.C. killing of vocal Iran critic to make Vancouver court appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Two people accused of killing a vocal Iran critic in British Columbia are set to appear in a Vancouver courtroom this morning.<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Two people accused of killing a vocal Iran critic in British Columbia are set to appear in a Vancouver courtroom this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show 48-year-old Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi of Maple Ridge and 45-year-old Arezou Soltani of North Vancouver are scheduled for a hearing to fix a date for a future appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Razavi and Soltani have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Masood Masjoody, a mathematician who was an instructor for a time at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide investigators have said Masjoody was last seen in February, and his remains were found in Mission, B.C., on March 6.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Freda Fong says investigators believe Masjoody&#8217;s killing was &#8220;targeted,&#8221; and that the Burnaby man had &#8220;ongoing disputes&#8221; with the suspects. <\/p>\n<p>Court records show Masjoody filed lawsuits in recent years naming many parties as defendants, including the suspects as well as the late Shah of Iran&#8217;s son, Reza Pahlavi, alleging defamation and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Masjoody was declared a &#8220;vexatious litigant&#8221; by the B.C. Court of Appeal last year. <\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Two people accused of killing a vocal Iran critic in British Columbia are set to appear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-539749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}