Blinded Iranian Awaits Eye-For-Eye Justice
MADRID — An Iranian woman living in Spain is welcoming a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her.
In a Spanish radio interview, she says her aim isn’t revenge — it’s to make sure her suffering isn’t repeated.
The woman (Ameneh Bahrami) was blinded in 2004 when a man she had spurned threw acid on her. Late last year, an Iranian court reportedly ruled that Islamic justice calls for the attacker to be blinded with acid, too.
But the victim says she is entitled to blind him in only one eye, because under Iranian law “each man is worth two women.”
She also says he would be blinded by having several drops of acid put into one eye, whereas she had acid splashed all over her face and other parts of her body.
She says she’s waiting for a letter from the court telling her to go back to Iran for the punishment to be carried out.
