“The verdict was today communicated to the family members and lawyers of the victim and the convict,” the spokesman told reporters in a press conference.
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He said the court has arrived at the definite conclusion that a deliberate murder has happened and “issued a Qisas [retaliation in kind] verdict”, meaning capital punishment for Najafi.
Esmaeili said that the former Tehran mayor was also sentenced to two years in prison for illegally carrying a weapon.
Accused of shooting his wife Mitra Ostad at their home, Najafi appeared in a Tehran criminal court on July 13.
Ostad was murdered at her home in Tehran on May 28. Police found her body with several gunshots in her chest.
Najafi later went to the Criminal Police headquarters in person and confessed to the murder.
He had resigned from the post of Tehran’s mayor in April 2018, citing failing health for leaving the office.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 67-year-old Najafi was elected mayor of Tehran in August 2017.
Meanwhile Judiciary Spokesman reiterated that pursuing the economic corruption cases is a top priority of the Judiciary.
Addressing his weekly press conference on Tuesday, the Spokesman for Iran’s Judiciary, Esmaeili said: “According to the order of the head of the Judiciary Branch, we will fight those officials who are involved in the corruption cases.”
“We will have the Islamic Human Rights and Human Dignity Day next week,” added Esmaeili according to Iran Press.
Answering the question of about sanctions imposed on Iran, he added, “We believe that unfair sanction is illegal.”
“The Judiciary Branch along with government has been following up and suing all the U.S. measures against Iran,” the Spokesman for Iran’s Judiciary continued.
“We will continue to follow up our rights locally and internationally,” he concluded.
He also criticized the government and its screening bodies over their negligence about wasting official rate forex which were earmarked to importers to import goods but they misused the money or they they sold their imported goods at the open market rate.
- source : Iran news
