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February 13, 2022 – 9:49 am Clock
It looks like a scene from a horror movie, but it’s real: A gruesome video recording shows someone grinning to himself Iranianswalking with his 17-year-old wife’s severed head. According to reports from the “New York Post”, he is said to have beheaded her.
Decapitated woman was in forced marriage to her killer
Mona Heydari was unhappy in her marriage, wanted to flee and was murdered
The blood-smeared knife in one hand, the head of his dead wife in the other hand, a smile on his face: According to “East2West News”, Sajjad Heydari strolls through a neighborhood in the Iranian city of Ahvaz as if nothing were wrong. The pictures available to the editors can hardly be surpassed in terms of cruelty.
The killed Mona Heydari is said to have been forced to marry Sajjad when she was only twelve years old. The New York Post reports, citing the Women’s Committee of Iran’s National Council of Resistance. She will not be happy with him. Domestic violence is common in marriages. Mona wants a divorce, but her three-year-old son puts pressure on the young woman.
Mona Hydari flees to Turkey, but comes back to Iran
Eventually he flees To Turkey. But because she finds it difficult to live alone in a foreign country, she comes back. That is tantamount to a death sentence.
Because only a few days following her return to Iran, her husband Sajjad and his brother are said to have tied her hands and cut off her head. According to the “New York Post”, both men were arrested, but what punishment they face is still unclear.
Femicides in Iran are increasing
Such murders of women, also called femicides, are more common in Iran. “In a report published in 2019, the state-run daily Sharq wrote that an annual average of 375 to 450 honor killings are recorded in Iran,” the Resistance Council said.
“The catastrophic increase in these killings in Iran is rooted in misogyny and the patriarchal culture institutionalized in law and society,” the group continued. The government’s women’s representative in Iran commented on the case on Twitter. She demands that the topic belongs in the public debate. (jmu)
