UAE: Iranian Official's Son Died of Medicine Overdose
The son of a top Iranian official whose body was found in a Dubai hotel last weekend died of an overdose of anti-depression and schizophrenia medicine, United Arab Emirates police said.
A forensic investigation "rules out any criminal suspicion" in the death of Ahmed Rezaei, 35, Dubai's police chief, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan, said late Wednesday, according to the state news agency WAM.
The body of Rezaei -- who held U.S. nationality under the name Tom Anderson -- was discovered Sunday in his room on the 18th floor of a four-star Dubai hotel.
Rezaei/Anderson was the son of Mohsen Rezaei, a former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and 2009 defeated presidential candidate who is now secretary of the Expediency Council advising Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Mohsen Rezaei's website this week described Ahmad Rezaei's death as "suspicious."
But Khalfan was quoted by WAM as saying: "U.S. businessman Tom J. Anderson's death occurred because he consumed excessive amounts of a medicine used as an anti-depressant and for the treatment of schizophrenia."
Ahmed Rezaei emigrated to the United States 13 years ago and refused to return to Iran for several years.
Source: Agence France Presse
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