Daniel Mahgerefteh (; died 2012) was an

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ish man who was murdered in suspicious circumstances after he was dating the daughter of a member of

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(IRGC). He was the son of a well-known businessman and one of the wealthiest

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families in

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. The Jewish community believed that he was murdered due to the relationship, but

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said that the murder was about robbery. The murder happened in December 2012 when "Mohammad D." who was a friend of the victim, shot him from close distance with a pistol. The murderer then stole two candle holders, one carpet, one electric guitar, one laptop and a

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which was worth around 300 million tomans (about $100,000). The murderer said that the reason behind the killing was class differences and the fact that Daniel was belittling him for being poor. However, according to Armin Avi Kreuznacher, an Iranian-born Jew who emigrated from the country in 2010, Mahgerefteh was killed by the woman's family after the two had intimate relations and he refused to marry her. “The murder was carried out as revenge for dishonoring the family,” said Kreuznacher, who currently resides in

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. Menashe Amir, an expert on Iran's Jewish community, told

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that the official account of Mahgerefteh's murder was rife with inconsistencies.

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