Tikvah
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April 29, 2020

The Perverse Moral Imbalance behind Ignoring the Murder of an Iranian Dissident

Molavi Vardanjani’s story, and Jamal Khashoggi’s.

In 2018, the Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, evidently because his writings were critical of the government in Riyadh and sympathetic to Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. The incident received a great deal of media coverage and widespread condemnation. By contrast, notes Eliora Katz, the death of an Iranian dissident, Molavi Vardanjani, has gone almost unnoticed—despite the strikingly similar circumstances:

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