Iran Hangs Former Soccer Player‘s ’Temporary Wife’ for Murder
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Jonathon M. Seidl
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Wednesday hanged a former soccer player’s mistress — known as a “temporary wife — who was convicted of murdering her love rival, the player’s wife, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Shahla Jahed was hanged at dawn, after spending more than eight years in jail, IRNA said, in a case that has captivated the Iranian public for several years.
Jahed had become what is known as a “temporary wife” of former soccer star Nasser Mohammad Khani. She was charged in 2002 with stabbing to death Laleh Saharkhizan, the player’s wife, and convicted of murder in 2004 and again in 2009, after her appeal was denied.
Contracts with “temporary wives” are a legal way for Iranian men to have mistresses outside marriage, with the agreements lasting from between several hours to a few years.
Wednesday’s death sentence was based on the Islamic law of “qisas” — or eye for an eye retribution.
International human rights groups, including Amnesty International, had campaigned for Jahed’s punishment to be halted.
The IRNA report said that just before the hanging at Tehran’s Evin prison, the 40-year-old Jahed prayed peacefully, then burst into tears and cries, shouting for her life to be spared.
The victim’s son pulled the chair from under her feet as Jahed gasped for breath in the remaining moments of her life, the khabaronline.ir news website said. The former soccer striker, Khani, also attended the hanging.
The reports also said that judiciary officials spent almost an hour in talks with Saharkhizan’s family before the hanging, trying to convince them to spare Jahed’s life but were unsuccessful.
Prominent artists and respected cultural figures in Iran have also for years appealed to the victim’s family to show mercy.
Under Iranian law, men and women can commit to a “temporary marriage” for an agreed period of time after a certain amount of money is paid to the woman.
In Iran, men are allowed up to four legal wives under Islam and any number of temporary wives. Women can only be married to one man at a time.
Jahed initially denied any involvement in Saharkhizan’s killing but later confessed to the stabbing, only to subsequently withdraw the confession. Several Iranian experts have said she may have been wrongfully convicted.
Murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping and drug trafficking are crimes punishable with the death penalty in Iran.
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Comments (51)
The Libertarian Atheist
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:36pmOnce again… the amazing logic of Islam… the rest of the world call them “whores”… they call them “Temporary Wives”.
I wonder if I can go to the bank in an Islamic nation and demand some “Temporary Money”… or perhaps I could go to a new car dealership and hop into my “Temporary Car” and drive away…
It’s beyond belief that we tolerate Islam in this world.
Report Post »Bluestraveler
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:11pmWell considering, that Iranian law is heavily one sided, leaning ALWAYS favorably towards the men involved in a crime, how can we be sure that she was guilty? I highly doubt it.
How quickly people are to judge, and that despite everything we know so far about the “religion of peace”. I am convinced, that she was nothing but a pawn, a stand in. And it cost her her life. And the real guilty person, the man in all of this, will walk away free, and unhindered to have many more temporary wives.
Woo hoo
Report Post »hollowpoint
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:07pmFirst to Untameable-Kate: Why do you think she was a whore? Did it ever occur to you that he wanted HER, he paid for HER, he used her. Albeit murder is never an option. But calling another woman a whore based upon a story you read is extremely unfair and disgusting. I am a woman and that word amongst a few others is a word I never use when referring to another woman, regardless of what she does. That being said, I am equally appalled by the fact that the victim’s own son pulled the chair out from under her, hence making him a murderer too but since he is a man it is ok. And for the adulterer soccer player to attend the execution is pretty sick too. He probably blames her for being pretty or poor or desperate. She spent 8 years in an Iranian prison! Wow, what a good time I bet that was. Can you imagine what she endured during those years? Whoa. But I do believe that murder requires punishment and even though hanging is a cruel method it is not new. We did it in our country once upon a time and even Utah still has the firing squad I believe (?). Sharia law is coming to this country and woe be unto us when that happens. Islam is a sick and twisted religion.
Report Post »bookofwisdom
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:26pmI’m with you Hollowpoint. How could a son do that to his mother even if she was guilty? I don’t care how much I might dislike someone I could not in good conscious stand there and watch them choke to death, must less pull the chair from under their feet. I believe they are going to be shocked when they get to heaven and find out what God has in store for them. May God Bless.
Report Post »ThomasBombadillo
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 4:27pmhollowpoint and bookofwisdom,
I think you’re a little confused about the meaning of the words “victim” and “murder”.
The “victim” in this story was the soccer player’s wife, who was murdered by his mistress. That means the son in question did not execute his mother. He executed the woman who murdered his mother.
This woman was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Even though you feel it may have been barbarous or distasteful, even if he may have taken some twisted pleasure from it, carrying out the punishment does not make the executioner a “murderer”.
Report Post »NHABE64
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:43pmI guess I could say one less muslim but then I am a Christian and that is a nice thing to say so I won’t.
Report Post »mdalton_5117
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:32pmNevada has “temporary wives” with legal prostitution. One could say “Under Nevada law, men and women can commit to a “temporary marriage” for an agreed period of time after a certain amount of money is paid to the woman.” Which makes me wonder – is spending time with a prostitute grounds for divorce in Nevada if prostitution is legal? Why would a legal activity be grounds for divorce? Just wondering…
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:34amThe more people IRAN hangs the better, it’s just that it allways seems to be women is kinda telling!
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:01pmGuess they don’t have any hung men…:)
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:17amTemporary Wife’s .. maybe the rag heads is onto something here
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:58pmMIKENLEEDS — ““maybe the rag heads is onto something here””
We need to be more respectful. Those are not “Rags”, they are little sheets on their heads. –So, in
Report Post »the future please refer to them as “Little Sheet Heads”…..:)
Enuff Zenuff
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:56amNot that I’m a proponent of Sharia law, but did anyone else notice that she had a trial and a second trial for an appeal, and that many years elapsed between the first guilty verdict and the punishment? I thought their judgments were usually swifter than that – like the time the Saudi’s stormed a hijacked plane after it landed, removed the passengers, wrapped towels around the necks of the hijackers and slit their throats before they ever got off the plane. Bravo when the guilt was so obvious! Meanwhile we’re still referring to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the underwear bomber) and Nidal Malik Hasan (of the Fort Hood massacre) as “alleged” terrorists!
Mexico used to have a law allowed a husband to shoot his wife and her lover if he caught them ‘in flagrante delicto’. I think it was in the 1970′s that women began demanding that the law either be changed or that they be given the same right to shoot their husbands when caught. Guess what – the husbands lost that ‘privilege’. The day may eventually come when Iranian women demand more rights and freedoms as they have in other, more westernized, Muslim countries; but until then, Amnesty International et.al. are wasting their time.
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:35amA poster asked, “What was the point of the story?” The point is that the world is threatened by a violent, corrupt culture still living in the dark ages.
Report Post »nevadapat
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:20amThe only religion on earth where you can have your cake and eat it too………what a joke.
Report Post »banderashovel
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:09amso—where’s the video—
Report Post »dkhartman
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:56amI don’t believe in that religion.. I think men and women should be equal and get equal punishment.. However, she did kill someone so, I don’t really feel badly about her getting equal treatment. I think murderers should be murdered, why not. You had your life. You have a choice. You took a life. Goodbye?? You can’t be for death penalty in America and then be appalled by this…
The only thing appalling is that women get harsher treatment. Otherwise, so be it.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:45amSeeing the way women and children are abused in these Muslim countries, who says she was given what could be called a fair trial. Who knows if any confession was coerced by torture. It seems a very convenient way of getting rid of a wife a man no longer loves, and getting rid of the pesky mistress too.
Report Post »Khedewia
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:38amMaybe she did commit the murder. In that case, if the penalty for murder is death by hanging, so be it. The problem is that women are not given fair treatment there. Maybe someone else committed the murder, but she was a convenient scapegoat? Who knows? Men get away with a lot more than women do. Why is it okay for a man to have a “temporary wife?” Men are at liberty to have multiple wives and then countless temporary wives if they can afford them. The money is usually paid to the temporary wife’s family usually because that family really needs the money. This woman will be divorced at some point since she is only a temporary wife…then what? Her chances of obtaining a decent husband after being divorced is slim to none. She will either end up other temporary marriages or as a second, third or even fourth wife to an old man. She doesn’t have much say in the matter. Sounds very depressing.
Report Post »tinch
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:36amThis is not about what she did, but the fact that MEN can kill women, rape women, do any other number of things to them with out any fear of punishment.
Temporary wife? WTF..it is OK for men to commit adultery but women are killed What kind of BS religion is this? What kind of crazy way is that to live.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:31amI wonder if what constitutes ‘proof’ is the testimony of three adult males, as in biblical times.
Report Post »sooner35
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:17amI just don‘t get how they can stone a woman for adultery but then have a contract to say it’s ok in other cases
Report Post »diesel71dan
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:44amWell, that is Islam for you. The want to be so religious and moral so you can not have sex outside of marriage. hence the temporary wife for a few hours. This was all started by thier “prophet” Mohammed. He started temporary marriges so his soldiers could screw whores and somehow pretend it was moral.
Report Post »Goobergregory
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:50amIt is only bad when the WOMAN is the one who is the cheater! Sheesh.. I am SO glad I do not live there. I would be dead by now just for being nice to people and refuse to wear the stupid crap!
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:24pmI was sitting here thinking the exact same thing.Amazing how the laws only reward the male population.
Report Post »aggiehomer
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:16amHillbillysam hits the nail on the head.
Report Post »Disabledvet
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:05amI like the temporary wife thing,
Report Post »the Life Of Reilly
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:13amThere called hookers. Available at a street corner near you. Wear a raincoat.
Report Post »Philo Beddoe
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:03amOh, I thought it was accepted to treat woman worse than animals in Iran.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:55amWelcome to the world of Sharia law, Oklahoma……ain’t it amazing that Progressives view the death penalty with such contempt in this country but they will fight tooth-and-nail to force the implementation of a set of foreign laws that allow for the slow strangulation of a person at the end of a rope?? What am I missing here?
Report Post »ConsiderThis
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:09pmYou’re not missing anything!
Report Post »As far as I’m concerned anyone that supports Sharia law should be taken to the nearest airport and given a one way flight back to where they came from.
And as far as the home grown ones that want to inflict this disaster on America…Ha, ha. They go too but get to ride cargo.
john seven eighteen
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:53amWhat a model society those Iranians have created for themselves. Good thing they are now going to be on the UN‘s womens’ rights board. Right…….
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:59amDid you miss the part where she murdered another woman?
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:21pmInteresting…
“The victim’s son pulled the chair from under her feet as Jahed gasped for breath in the remaining moments of her life, the khabaronline.ir news website said. The former soccer striker, Khani, also attended the hanging.”
And here in the U.S., people claim that death by lethal injection is “cruel and inhumane”.
Report Post »Philo Beddoe
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:43amN.O.W, hello hello wherever you are obama.U.N, are you out there?
On the other hand, I may check into this “temporary wife thing”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:59amShe killed another woman and she was executed. This is not a human rights issue. If we hanged all murderers, the murder rate would drop.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:15pmGonzo I gotta agree with you, castrate rapists and take everything away from thieves. People do crimes in this country because they have no moral compass or fear of punishment.
Report Post »Hondaman
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:41amAnd the point of this story is . . . . . .
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:36amSomeone should start a “temporary wife” service……….. maybe ACORN
Report Post »Cathy E
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:07pmWasn’t that what we saw in the works at ACORN with those ******/pimp videos? lol
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:40amBill Clinton may like the whole “temporary wife” concept. Possible conversion in the works?
Report Post »ADMIRAL747
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:54amIf she did it, so be it… If not, it’s tragic.
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Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:06amWhat happens to the temporary children. Abortion?
Report Post »Shurmus
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:50amHanging convicted criminals? Maybe the camelistas are on to something…
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:01am“Temporary wives” you can ‘contract’ with for as little as a few hours as a way to get around adultry.
One more indication of a sick and twisted culture.
Still, they haven’t gone totally off the reservation. They still abide by a death penalty for murderers.
As Ron White said (about Texas) “if you kill somebody… we’ll kill you back!”
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:15amI can see why immoral men are attracted to Islam, but I sure don’t understand women who convert.
Report Post »If the whore killed the wife by stabbing her to death then her punishment was fair. The men in Islam sure do seem to take a lot of pleasure in getting to dole out the punishment.
Dustyluv
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:31amIf i tried that temporary wife thing I would be permanently cahoneless..
Report Post »ConsiderThis
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:57pmAnd the Progressives want Sharia law here?
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