Death of an electrician: how luck run out for dissident who fled Iran in 1981
(The Guardian Iran)

Killing at point-blank range of Ali Motamed in the Netherlands shines light on pattern of Iranian hit jobsAli Motamed´s wife had become accustomed to making excuses for her 56-year-old husband. Call-outs for his work as an electrician at the Dutch firm, Eneco, gave a handy reason for missing parties or even weddings without prompting undue curiosity.A quiet, self-contained character around his colleagues, he appeared to them content to stay in watching television at the redbrick home he shared with Galina, 50, and their 17-year-old son on Hendrik Marsmanstraat in the centre of a small estate of cheap modern housing in Almere, a city east of Amsterdam. Related: Iran should realise jailing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe harms its security | Simon Tisdall Continue reading...