iran's revolutionary court sentenced kolahi samadi to death in absentia. t his ties to the mek and claimed asylum in the netherlands. he changed his name to ali motamed, got married, and settled down to what he thought would be a quiet life in almere. so could the iranian regime have ordered his killing? local politicians here were horrified at the prospect. everybody is keeping their mouths shut. what concerns me in this city, though, an assassination was conducted, maybe by a foreign country. this is of course, people deserve to know what happened and especially of course iranian dissidents. of course i can imagine they are frightened now. two months after the assassination, a dutch intelligence officer contacted a dutch human rights activist, morteza sadeghi, with a warning for other iranian dissidents living in the netherlands. but within months, there was another murder. in november, 2017, iranian dissident ahmad mola nissi, was walking home in the hague. two men in a black bmw were following him. one got out of the car and shot nissi at point—blank ra