After trying to enter the house and Hassan Lahori’s refusal to open the door, permission was issued to break into the house, and after several knocks, the door was opened. Finally, Hassan Lahoti Ashkouri was killed with strychnine poison in Evin prison. Similarly, his son, Vahid Lahoti, was also killed in prison due to a blow to the head . Hassan Lahoti’s daughter-in-law, Faiza Hashemi, later said: “Both Hassan Lahoti and his son killed Vahid.”
Fatemeh Hashemi, the other daughter of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and the other daughter-in-law of Lahoti, announced that Hashemi Rafsanjani had advised his daughters and sons-in-law, Saeed and Hamid Lahoti, to keep silent about the manner of Lahoti’s death in order to protect the interests of the Islamic Republic of Homeland.
