Iranian man who beheaded 17-year-old wife jailed for eight years

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Iranian man who beheaded 17-year-old wife jailed for eight years

18 January 2022

By David Gritten
BBC News

A man who beheaded his 17-year-old wife has been sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran, the judiciary says.

Images of Sajjad Heydari carrying Mona's severed head in Ahvaz after the so-called "honour killing" last year caused widespread outrage.

A judiciary spokesman said the leniency of the sentence was due to Mona's parents having "pardoned" him for the murder rather than seeking retribution.

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Local media reported that she had fled to Turkey after allegedly being subjected to domestic violence by her husband, who had refused her requests for a divorce.

She had returned to Iran a few days before her murder last February because she had reportedly received assurances from her family that she would be safe.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64319487

[Blue Owl]

1. I wouldn't feel bad if someone returned the favor to him

[liberalla]

2. OMG. 17 years old! That poor girl!

And her family helped bring this about...

[C0RI0LANUS]

3. And the regime in Tehran is executing people for protesting.

The theocracy in Iran is an indirect result of US support for the last Shah of Iran. The Shah's secret police (the SAVAK) eliminated much of the secular intelligentsia that opposed him, while the US looked the other way. When the revolution finally dethroned the Peacock Throne, the theocrats filled the vacuum in civil society-- led by Ayatollah Khomeini.

How much of the Shah's military officer corps stayed or departed after 1979, I'm not sure. But when Iraq attacked Iran in 1980, there were senior officers defending the Islamic Republic of Iran.