Dillip Hiro, author of Iran Under the Ayatollahs, said that anti-Shah groups were not likely to have caused the fire, since the Cinema Rex was located in a working-class neighborhood and showed the film Gavaznha ("The Deer"); Hiro added that Gavaznha "passed the censors with considerable difficulty."
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Captain Monir Taheri, member of Iran’s pre-revolutionary armed forces, was arrested in the town of Mianeh, two days before his trial and execution, on February 21, 1979; a few months after the fire at Cinema Rex.
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