Based on real events


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_murders_of_Iran

Saeed Emami, the real life mastermind behind the killings (and many more) was convicted and died in prison from (faked?) suicide.

By leaving the judicial aftermath out of the film, there is a much stronger suggestion that the killings were approved by the regime as a whole, rather than carried out by an extremist rogue element. I don't have enough knowledge of the case to have a personal opinion about either possibility. On the one hand, the house of one or more writers was under constant surveillance (as depicted in the film), which suggests other government departments may have been in on it and Saeed Emami merely took the rap. On the other hand, even the son of Ayatollah Khomeini is said to have been one of the victims of the murders.

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