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said that he had never had any heart problems before. Ebrahim
Zalzadeh, former editor of the monthly literary journal Me'yar and owner of Ebtekar, was reported missing in February 1997 and his death was discovered in a Tehran morgue in March 1997. According to reports, the Iranian authorities had failed to undertake "a thorough inquiry" into his death as of September 1997.
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and the vocal reformist press that was allowed to function in Iran during his period of office in the late 1990s and early 2000s later revealed the murders. Several of its members have suffered organized persecution and a few have been murdered mysteriously.
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