Iranian must pay €2m to avoid blinding sentence

IT will cost an Iranian man convicted of throwing acid in the face of a fellow student €2 million to escape a court-ordered blinding, the Arman newspaper quoted his victim as saying.

“I want two million euro to guarantee my life and my future, and not for treatment,” said Ameneh Bahrami, who was blinded in the attack in 2004.

“It is only then that I will give up qesas [retributive justice] against Majid, although they said — and I hope it is true — that the sentence will be carried out next week,” she added.