{"id":540019,"date":"2026-03-16T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:37:17","slug":"suspects-in-b-c-killing-of-vocal-iran-critic-to-make-vancouver-court-appearance-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540019\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspects in B.C. killing of vocal Iran critic to make Vancouver court appearance | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773653650_699_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Masood Masjoody is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout &#8211; Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (Mandatory Credit)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 16, 2026 | 1:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Masood Masjoody is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout &#8211; Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (Mandatory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,55],"class_list":["post-540019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540019","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=540019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}