An Eye for an Eye: Iran's Blinding Justice System

Iran's judiciary has postponed the blinding of a man as punishment for throwing acid in the face of a young woman in 2004, after she rejected his offer of marriage. The delay came in the face of mounting outcry from both inside Iran and the West over the sentence, which is permissible under qesas, a principle of Islamic law allowing victims analogous retribution for violent crimes.

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Bahrami, who was scheduled to administer the blinding drops to an anesthetized Movahedi herself, learned of the delay outside the Judiciary Hospital in Tehran. Human-rights groups and Western governments pleaded with Iranian authorities last week to call off the punishment

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