Man Chops Off Wife’s Head, Carries It Around The Street In ‘Honor Killing” (Photos And Video)

 A horrific video of Iranian man grinning as he walked through the streets clutching the severed head of his 17-year-old wife after  he has cut it off in an “honor killing,” is currently causing ripples  online.

East2West News reported how Sajjad Heydari in the appalling very graphic video footage was 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.

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According to The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Mona, who also doubles as Sajjad’s cousin, had been forced to marry him when she was just 12 years old, and in the cause of the marriage, had 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.

The news outlet further reported how Mona was able to successfully escape to Turkey but returned after finding it tough to live alone in another country.

The report further stated how Sajjad and his brother few days after her return tied her hands and chopped off her head before her body was dumped while her husband boldly paraded through the streets with her head.

A police official said the motive for the murder was “family differences.”


Sajjad and his brother, according to further reports were arrested, but it remains unclear what they will be charged for.

According to Iran International, the prosecutor general of Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan, Abbas Hosseini-Pouya, revealed how Mona sent photos of herself to her husband from Turkey that had fueled his ‘negative emotions’.

The women’s committee said that “not a week goes by without some form of honor killing making headlines. The clerical regime’s failure to criminalize these murders has led to a catastrophic rise in honor killings.



“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.

“The catastrophic rise in honor killings in Iran is rooted in misogyny and the patriarchal culture institutionalized in the laws and society,” the group continued.

“Although the father, brother or husband holds the knife, sickle or rifle, the murders are rooted in the medieval outlook of the ruling regime. The clerical regime’s laws officially denote that women are second-degree citizens owned by men,” it added.

News agency, Rokna was reported to have been shut down after it published the shocking video.