"The Chain Murders of Iran (\u0642\u062A\u0644\u0647\u0627\u06CC \u0632\u0646\u062C\u06CC\u0631\u0647 \u0627\u06CC), or Serial Murders, were a series of murders and disappearances from 1988 to 1998 by Iranian government operatives of Iranian dissident intellectuals who had been critical of the Islamic Republic system in some way.The victims included more than 80 writers, translators, poets, political activists, and ordinary citizens, and were killed by a variety of means\u2014car crashes, stabbings, shootings in staged robberies, injections with potassium to simulate a heart attack\u2014in what some believe was an attempt to avoid connection between them. "@en .