Iran Executed Shahla Jahed: Accused of Murdering Lover's Wife

by Sony Sahota | November 30, 2010 at 11:08 am
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Shahla Jahed, mistress of a famed Iranian soccer player, was hanged in the early hours today, Iran media reported.



The wife’s family was present during Jahed’s execution at 5am.  Shahla Jahed’s life could have been spared if the family pardoned her. 



According to Amnesty International, more than 388 people were executed in Iran last year-more than any other country in the world apart from China.  Most executions are carried out by hanging. 



Jahed was found guilty in 2002 for the murder of Laleh Saharkhizan, the wife of Naser Mohammadkhani, a soccer star and coach who rose to prominence in the the 1980s.


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Held in Tehran’s Evin prison for nine years and sentenced to death on the basis of her confession, Jahed continuously renounced the admission at her public trial. 



An international outcry occurred early this year after Sakineh Mohammdi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old woman, was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. 

Jahed’s execution was initially postponed as a result of Ashtiani’s case.  But according to Jahed’s lawyer, the Iranian judiciary will execute her in Tehran’s Evin prison at 5am on Wednesday. 



Jahed was arrested as the prime suspect following the murder but she refused to talk for nearly a year.  Mohammadkhani was also imprisoned for several months on charges of complicity but was released after the authorities said Jahed confessed to committing the crime alone. 



Jahed told the judge at her public trial: "If you want to kill me go ahead … if you send me back there [where her confessions were taken], I'll confess again and not only will I confess to killing her but I'd also confess that I killed those who have been killed by others," she continued. She then repeatedly reiterated that she is innocent and that she had not committed any crime.



Many activists in Iran suspect Jahed was forced to confess to stabbing the soccer star’s wife to death.  News of her pending execution outraged human rights groups who campaigned for several years to stop Iran from killing her



Mohammadkhani was "temporarily married" to Jahed, a practice allowed under Shia Islam. Temporary marriage or "sigheh", as it is known in Iran, allows men to take on wives for as little as a few hours to years so long any offspring are legally provided for. Critics see this practice as legalised prostitution.  Mohammadkhani was in Germany when the murder unfolded.



Shahla Jahed's case drew huge attention when Iran took the unprecedented decision of holding her trial in public.



According to Iranian law, Shahla Jahed's life could still be spared if the family of the murdered wife pardons her before 5am.













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The 1

'Unfortunately she's a victim of a misogynous society. Although Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's case is about adultery, her case is similar to that of Shahla Jahed because both are victims of the flaws of the Iranian judicial system'.

My thoughts exactly ! 1

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YankeeJim

Iran is a fucked up society - religion-based government, anti individual freedom & liberty, caustic and hostile to humanity. Most Iranians are probably not that way, but under a dictatorial society cloaked in Islam the government defiles the Prophet.

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nanute

And a man can murder his wife with impunity. Jesus Jumping Christ on a Pogo Stick.

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Sony Sahota

I just uploaded video footage of Shahla Jahed's public trial in Iran

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Jaques

Iran is miles ahead of  USA or Israel which, "Justice" systems aside have between them murdered some 3 million Arabs and various other unfortunates who got in the way,or their own allies since 1981....that's ignoring scores of thousands of Mossad and CIA assassinations.I was one who tried to save this lady and am aware of the immense inequity in demands for proof on men and women in this melange of Judaism, Christianity and Mohammed's fantasies  which carry the Judaic brutality towards women as emblems of "god's approval".

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Jaques

It's a tradition for these "prophets" to go off into the desert and meet "god" and come back shining with the gilded armour of twisted interpretation of humanity and brutal self satisfaction They have a personality and gilded tongue deadheads rush to adore and obey. Bush was that type he claimed "I get my instructions directly from "god" via his angels"...substitute "Lucifer" to be more accurate.Reagan,Clinton(s) and Bush all kowtowed to the New Order of Central bankers represented by Israel.The shocking thing is that this woman's claim to innocence was compelling. It is also shocking the perversion of the Hamurabi Babylonian "eye for and eye" which in FACT meant that no one could claim or revenge to GREATER than the offence against them is so misapplied. Women are readily convicted of adultery on hearsay...men need AT LEAST three witnesses of the act to even be brought to trial.The son kicking the chair out from under this victim's feet is revenge way beyond indecency. I have great respect for the intelligence, education, openess, perception, perspiscacity, courage  and presentation of the Iranian President, he's a hundred times the man Bush is and vastly less a liar but I cannot support his actions in this execution. A great deal of respect would have been earned had he invited international jurists to review this very high profile case. If one applied that to USA and Israel tens of thosands of prisoners locked up for years including children would be freed, I realise, but I think had Ahmaninejad done it he could have rewritten history to all our benefits...and hers. Her son fought for years for her life after he realised she was innocent but it's all over now.Be at Peace..

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Jaques

Perhaps I should add that whilst "Terra-Australis" was probably at the lowest intelligence and achievement end of the scale and what was to be America was far ahead of that with its very intelligent Indians, displaced by at first jews fleeing from Spain not by the Mayflower as so many believe... Iran and Iraq as we now call them were the cradles of vast information; so much so was that, that after the Templars had warred with them they settled and learned great knowledge...far beyond that of Britain or Europe or even the Church.. After massacring the Muslims against their promise and being defeated in return, Templars returned with many of these "secrets" which included the "magic number" used in the most glorious of architectural ratios as well as knowledge which allowed great changes to architecture itself. This threatened the church's powerbase and by then the wealth of the Templars was vast.The Church was fascinated that the Templars may have recovered "the ark of the covenant" also in my view and in an internationlly  co-ordinated attack on what was to become a day of superstition Friday 13 October 1307 in which the Templars were taken who could not flee.Most including Jaques deMolnay were executed by fire but in Germany many were not taken as the country was resistant to the vatican edicts.  Accusations were made against them as have been made against Wikileaks  Julian...of abortions, lewd ritials, satanic worship not simply "rape". The CIA and Mossad commonly use women to discredit people who know too much and for assassination. The search for theTemplar treasure is said to have been futile as they sailed it out to no man knows where today over the period of the two weeks warning they received from friends....or from those perhaps which wished to trace it as it was removed!! Having burnt huge piles of book of accumulated knowledge as "heresy" and "anathema" the catholic church had became the centre of all knowledge. The film "the name of the rose" deals quite vividly with these issues. When anyone slags off Iran you might remind them that Iran was probably the most advanced Nation on the planet, even looking at the wonders of China which we are still discovering.The brain power that devised such immense knowledge without computers or precedents is not dead and gone but the brotherly arm and "peace"  of Islam has become a yoke and burden and a deception as has our democracy and our own religious madness and evil political leaders and parties under the mighty wealth and power of the zionist central banking system which controls us all and sucks us dry of money, security and hope..  

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Vladimir Kashirsky

It's MENTAL DISEAS to murder in GOD.s name

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