Jahed
Iran hanged a woman this morning for having sex with a soccer player. And also killing the player’s wife. Probably.
Shahla (la la la la la la la, la ti da) Jahed was sent to the gallows this morning at dawn—and really what speaks more to having a humane and modern legal code than hanging people at dawn—after a nice 8-year respite in jail for the stabbing death of Nasser Mohammad Khani’s wife, Laleh Saharkhizan.
Jahed had become the ‘temporary wife’ of Khani. That wasn’t just a cutesy name given her by the Iranian media, it’s actually a contractual mechanism in Iran for men to have an affair with a mistress. Even better, the contracts can last from between hours to years. Even more better, by law, the temporary marriage can be agreed to after a certain amount of money is paid to the woman.
I don’t want to be the person to tell Iran things they may not know, but giving a woman money for an affair that might last a couple of hours doesn’t make her a ‘temporary wife’ it makes her a ‘prostitute.’ Oh sorry, a prostitute (no quotes needed).
Jahed was convicted of the murder of Saharkhizan in 2004 and, just for good measure, again in 2009. Jahed originally denied involvement, then confessed, then recanted her confession. Her appeal was denied, ergo, the second conviction. Some Iranian experts have said “she may have been wrongfully convicted.”
And if all that isn’t enough to get your head around, there’s this description of the events:
“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.”
We’re not dumb enough to confuse Qatar and Iran, but the former’s bid leaned heavily on the idea of uniting the people of the region. Be careful what you wish for, or who you wish to be united with.
“the victim’s son pulled the chair from under her feet…”
Good lord. What if he had siblings? Did they rock-paper-scissors to see who got to kill daddy’s mistress?
@bergkamesdios: silly, the eldest son always gets the good stuff.
Legalized prostitution and hangings at dawn with audience participation? We could learn a lot from Iran.
.
Also about Iran, this.
Berg: that was the most unsettling aspect to me. I really can’t get on board with eye-for-an-eye legal codes. Hate begets hate.
Whereas our humane methods of killing prisoners make us greatly superior.
@LE: I saw that and thought, how is it that in the last 30 years, not a single Iranian pilot flying over the airport has noticed it?
“Even more better” – hangings at dusk. Then, you could have slept in, had some lunch, maybe cocktails. It’s a better way to end a day than start it…like watching Perry Mason.
And various interpretations of the Quran justify this Islamic concept of “temporary wives”! And to think my savior was celibate….
@Elliott: So the LDS Polygamist Sects have more in common with Islam that we ever knew?
Two different countries. Qatar is a new country (70′s) Iran is an ancient, large one. Qatar is barely 1 million people, Iran is almost 70m. Qatar is almost exclusively Arab, Iran is multi-ethnic. Qatar is a royal sheikhdom, Iran is a theocracy. Qatar is pro-US, pro-Israel… you can guess how Iran feels. One is sunni, one is shiite. Different everything.
Also, when Qatar says unite the region, it means the Gulf Arab States, the GCC, that is. Not Iran. It kinda means unite them against Iran, seeing the tensions between the two.
Wiki a bit before you write. Don’t just tie in two unrelated pieces of news. It’s like saying that the US shouldn’t host the world cup because of Mexico’s treatment of the Zapatistas. Cause you know, they’re both Christian and in the news.
@James: If you actually read the post, you would have realized that there was never any attempt to confuse Iran with Qatar and that they are completely different countries. And, if that is the message, “Unite Against Iran” I would highly doubt that is a message they would want to send to FIFA.
TFA: Thanks. Beat me to it. I doubt any country would go before FIFA and say, “Hey, we’re bringing people together… to unite against that other country we all hate.” That’d be especially stupid considering that, based on 1998 and 2006, you’d have to think Iran might have a decent shot at qualifying for a 2022 World Cup (yes, that’s making a lot of assumptions about the country and its ability to be competitive in a given sport in 12 years).
@PR, if the US gets the 2022 WC that would certainly be interesting to see what happens if Iran qualifies assuming there is no real change in our relationship with them in the next 12 years