They Were the Nice, Older Couple Next Door. Then the First Body Turned Up.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "For those of us who knew Babak, this is all unbelievable and very strange," said Nima Abbaspour, a 46-year-old film director in Tehran who helped him make his first movie.
56% : The older couple first came to the public eye on a winter night in Tehran, when their film director son invited them to the stage after a screening.
50% : Over the past year, so-called honor killings have been making headlines in Iran.
40% : There have been renewed demands to reform Iran's penal code, which, based on Islamic sharia law, stipulates that as guardians of their children, fathers and grandfathers are exempt from the death penalty for their murder.
40% : That means that Mr. Khorramdin and his wife, who officials say are expected to be indicted soon, could face the death penalty over the killing of their son-in-law, but not the killing of their children.
24% : Judge Mohammad Shahriari, who presides over criminal prosecutions in Tehran, said the investigators believe the motive for the murders was family disputes.

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