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    Blinded Iranian acid victim pardons her attacker

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian woman who was blinded by a suitor who threw acid on her face has pardoned her attacker at the last minute, sparing him from being blinded by acid as retribution.

    Iranian state television broadcast footage Sunday of Ameneh Bahrami in the operating room with her attacker, Majid Mohavedi, who was on his knees waiting for her to drop acid in his eyes as punishment.

    Bahrami said she has forgiven Mohavedi and pardoned him. State TV showed Mohavedi weeping and saying Bahrami was "very generous."

    Mohavedi poured acid on Bahrami's face and blinded her in 2004 for rejecting his marriage proposal.

    A 2008 Iranian court order allowed Bahrami to pour the corrosive chemical in Mohavedi eyes as retribution.

     

    204 comments

    • justme  •  9 mths ago
      The guy should have to take care of the blind woman for life.
      • Dave 9 mths ago
        That's kind of like being married, which was what he wanted to begin with.
      • GaryB 9 mths ago
        JUST ME I DO HAVE TO AGREE WITH DAVE ON THIS 1
      • Estefan 9 mths ago
        He should take care of her from a distance; pay money to the family, never see her again.
    • p  •  9 mths ago
      he should be required to be her seeing eye dog
      • DK 9 mths ago
        I wouldn't want to be around that person ever again. HE should have to pay for her for the rest of his life.
      • LJP 9 mths ago
        pious muslims are not allowed dogs in house nor touch them
    • bd  •  9 mths ago
      She can SEE. He is the one who is blind.
      • A Yahoo! User 9 mths ago
        True.
      • successmentor 9 mths ago
        You are so right. Indeed she can see, he is blind. But the world cannot understand this.
      • † G-Money † 9 mths ago
        AMEN
    • DuckDuckGoose  •  9 mths ago
      Now what happens to him? He gets to walk free as a bird while this poor woman suffers everyday of her life? This woman is a saint, and the man is the devil!
      • Estefan 9 mths ago
        I will marry her, bring her to the USA, and take care of her the rest of her life. I only need to know how to locate her......
      • Kelly 9 mths ago
        He is not free. He will still have to live with the guilt of his actions. She understands forgiveness and that is the ultimate in freedom.
      • Rodney K 9 mths ago
        What goes around comes around
    • then some  •  9 mths ago
      She is a better person than I.
      • Richard 9 mths ago
        I wouldn't say that. Just the fact that you see how humane this woman is puts you on her level.
    • red, white and blue  •  9 mths ago
      The daily grotesque treatment of women in Islamic cultures is matched by the grotesque silence from Western feminists.
    • Chris  •  9 mths ago
      She is a better person than most....
    • Steve  •  9 mths ago
      Bless her heart. Yes, bless her heart. What an offering for peace. Bless her heart.
    • Elisha  •  9 mths ago
      It takes great strength of character and faith to forgive someone of such an act. She is a better person than I.
    • jtd  •  9 mths ago
      A woman says no so you throw acid in her face? They call us animals?
    • Tommy A  •  9 mths ago
      I am always amazed how some people can do the right thing when there is so much emotion involved. That is, dare I say, one of the most Christian things I have hear in a long time.
    • DK  •  9 mths ago
      Yep, he should have to provide for her financially for the rest of her life. Doubt she'd want him around her and her family...but he should giver her half his income til he dies.
      He did it so she wouldn't be appealing to anyone else, so either that or castrate him!!
    • Born Free  •  9 mths ago
      A blind woman with an enlightened soul showed a better way. The perpetrator has to live with himself and know that he is an animal.
    • Elaine  •  9 mths ago
      What a courageous Woman! with a HUGE HEART!
    • Lois  •  9 mths ago
      One hears of such things; but it is quite something else to come into contact with something like that. May Our Lord bless this woman and those who are close to her.
    • Davids Texas  •  9 mths ago
      She should have poured the acid down his pants.
    • Linda  •  9 mths ago
      Thes sentence should have been that the attacker financially supports the blinded woman for the rest of her life. A fair, and just punishment.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      and if the shoe was on the other foot?....pieces of her head and brains would be long be decayed upon the rocks in the community square,I assure you theres more to this grand gesture of forgiveness than meets the eye, I don't think she had a choice, she probably prodded by male family members to do this...or else!
    • HJR  •  9 mths ago
      Ah yes, the 'religion of peace' strikes again. Here in the backwards US of A when a woman rejects you you just go out and have a beer and get over it. But the enlightened islamists, why they do the perfectly natural thing and dump acid in the woman's eyes.
      Good thing we'll have that mosque at ground zero, we really need to be educated in the laws of mohammed here in the west.
    • Slash Firestorm  •  9 mths ago
      She's a better person than most of the people who will end up commenting on this story.

      Although that monstrous "man" deserves SOME punishment.
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