Father of Babak Khormddin Confesses to Murder and Mutilation of His Son

Babak Khormddin, a 47-year-old film director, was murdered by his father with the complicity of his mother. His father, a war veteran of the Iran-Iraq War, claims he was forced to kill his son due to behavior unbecoming of the family’s honor.

“A Requiem for Yashar” was a film that Babak Khormddin created amateurly and without obtaining permission, inspired by his own life; the story of a student who goes abroad to continue his education but homesickness for his parents brings him back to his homeland before completing his studies.

Now these very parents are accused of killing him.

According to Iranian media reports, the filmmaker’s father has confessed to his murder and even recounted the details: he and Babak’s mother put sleeping pills in his food, and after he lost consciousness, they stabbed him to death with a knife, dismembered his body, and threw it in a garbage bin.

Babak’s father confessed that this murder was premeditated and that they (the father and mother) had planned Babak’s murder due to “family disputes.”

Babak’s parents, for whom his homesickness had kept him from studying in England, claimed that his behavior toward them “was not appropriate and Babak’s rudeness and not listening to his parents made them lose patience.”

Babak’s father is around 80 years old. In 2015, at a ceremony held for the screening of Babak’s film at the Cinema Museum, his father took the stage and spoke only about himself; he said he was a Colonel in the General Staff, spent 69 months on the front lines of the war with Iraq, was chemically attacked twice and suffered four shrapnel wounds. He also said that he spent 17 years of his 30-year military service away from his family.

The film’s sound engineer had said at that ceremony: “All the feeling of the character (the director) toward his parents and how it happened, and how the sense of closeness to these very parents caused him to return, was present in the film, and I am happy that tonight I am seeing these parents (Babak Khormddin’s parents) up close.”

However, at that time, no one raised the question of why, at the premiere of a film whose story is about the life of the director and in which he says that homesickness for his homeland and parents drove him to desperation, his father spoke only about himself.

Now that this father has confessed to killing his son, perhaps this question will be raised for many.

Source: DW