A shocking video captured an Iranian man grinning as he walked through the streets clutching the severed head of his 17-year-old wife
The gruesome footage shows Sajjad Heydari strolling through a neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, on Saturday with Mona Heydari’s head in one hand and a blade in the other, East2West News reported.
She reportedly suffered domestic abuse but was pressured to stay put for the sake of their 3-year-old son, even though she had expressed her wish to divorce the brute. A few days later, Sajjad and his brother allegedly tied her hands and chopped off her head. Her body was dumped before her husband paraded through the streets with her head.Mona Heydari was forced to marry her cousin Sajjad Heydari when she was 12 and suffered domestic abuse before she was killed.The two men were reportedly arrested, but it was unclear what punishment they are likely to face.
Mona Heydari attempted to flee to Turkey but returned after she found living alone too difficult. When she returned, Sajjad Heydari and his brother bound her hands and chopped off her head.“In a report published in 2019, the state-run Sharq daily newspaper wrote that an annual average of 375 to 450 honor killings are recorded in Iran,” the resistance council said.
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