Iranian justiceIranian man who blinded love rival sentenced to suffer same fate
Iranian justice is harsh; a man who blinded his lover’s husband by throwing acid in his face was sentenced to be blinded himself by having acid poured into his own eyes; a woman is hanged for allegedly killing her lover’s wife — she has denied the allegations — and the brother of the killed woman carried out the final stage of the execution by kicking away the stool on which Jahed was standing with the noose around her neck
Shahla Jahed, executed by Iranian authorities // Source: blogspot.com
An Iranian man who blinded his lover’s husband will reportedly suffer a similar sentence — having acid poured into his eye.
The man, identified only as Mojtaba, threw acid in the face of his rival, a taxi driver named Alireza, after an illicit affair with the victim’s wife, Mojdeh, the Daily Mail reports.
All three people in the lover’s triangle are 25 years old and live in Qom, Iran’s clerical nerve sixty miles south of Tehran. The penalty was passed by a lower court and upheld by Iran’s supreme court, a government daily in Iran reported over the weekend, according to the Daily Mail. In cases of violent crime, Iran’s Islamic code allows for “an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth” retribution known as “qisas,” the newspaper reports.
The Qom prosecutor, Mostafa Barzegar Ganji, said the victim had used his right to qisas. “We have asked for forensic specialists to oversee the blinding of the convict,” Ganji added.
Shahla Jahed
On 30 November Iran executed a woman who had been convicted of murdering the wife of her football player lover.
Shahla Jahed was hanged before dawn in the courtyard of Evin prison in Tehran in the presence of the murdered woman’s family. Iran is second only to China in its use of capital punishment. Last year it staged 388 executions, according to Amnesty International.
Jahed was found guilty of the murder in 2002 of Laleh Saharkhizan, the wife of Naser Mohammadkhani, a football legend who rose to fame in the mid-1980s and who coached Tehran’s Persepolis club. A documentary about her case, “Red Card,” was banned. According to the Isna news agency, Saharkhizan’s brother carried out the final stage of the execution by kicking away the stool on which Jahed was standing with the noose around her neck.
