 Unable to escape from the building, everyone inside the cinema died in the conflagration.The Iranian newspaper "Sobhe Emruz" blamed radical Islamists in an editorial addressing Kayhan newspaper run by Shariatmadari (Shariatmadari has been described as being "a close confidant of Iran’s supreme leader" Ali Khamenei, and as having "links" to Iran's intelligence services), Sobhe Emruz wrote "Don't make us disclose who were really behind the Cinema Rex fire.