Sharia Justice in Iran: Literally an Eye for an Eye

In 2004 in Iran, Majid Movahedi threw a jar of acid into the face of Ameneh Bahrami, thereby blinding and disfiguring the woman, after she refused to marry him. Today, pursuant to the verdict of a Tehran court in accordance with Sharia law, Bahrami will blind Movahedi. As reported by The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/iran-blind-criminal-acid):

"Majid Movahedi, 30, is scheduled to be rendered unconscious in Tehran's judiciary hospital at noon on Saturday while Ameneh Bahrami, his victim, drops acid in both his eyes, her lawyer said.

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According to Iranian media, Bahrami's lawyer, Ali Sarafi, has said: 'A very good sentence has been given and an appropriate method has been adopted so that the convict will be blinded by few drops of acids in eyes after he is rendered unconscious.'"

According to The Guardian, Iranian officials have endorsed the verdict, owing to a spate of recent acid attacks. Doubt persists, however, whether Movahedi will be blinded in both eyes, given that Bahrami, in a 2009 interview, said that he would lose just one eye inasmuch as "each man is worth two women" pursuant to Iranian law.

Yet another nightmare from a land of savagery.

[Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported today that the blinding of Mavahedi has been postponed. The delay in carrying out the court's verdict is undoubtedly the result of international outrage.]