IRNA Iranian lawmakers on Sunday adopted capital punishment for those found guilty of acid attack to prevent such a grave crime to be committed in the society. According to a clause, approved by 161 votes out of the total number of 245, the perpetrators of acid attacks are defined as responsible for disrupting law and order in the society or and ...

Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchestan Prov, Nov 6, IRNA - Prosecutor General Ebrahim Raeisi on Thursday stressed that harshest sentences await acid attackers. Speaking to reporters in Zahedan, he said that investigations for finding the individuals or groups behind the acid attacks in Isfahan will continue. Certain foreign media used the crime as a tool to ...

Tehran, Nov 2, IRNA - Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Sunday called for punishment of acid attackers. He made the remarks in a mourning ceremony of Moharram al-Haram. Rafsanjani said that the security forces are expected to bring to justice the culprits responsible for acid attacks in the Central city of Isfahan....

A senior Iranian cleric says the recent acid attacks against women in Iran are plots aimed at sabotaging a parliamentary bill empowering people to further promote moralities in the society. Some people are trying to create the impression that promotion of virtue and prevention of vice is to disrupt public security, Kazem Seddiqi told worshippers at ...

Tehran, Oct 31, IRNA Penalty for acid attacks is non-suspendable according to Article 47 of Islamic Penal Codes and Government is cooperating with Judiciary Force to punish criminals of sever acid attacks according to Article 286, Vice President for Legal Affairs said. Establishment of security and creating of feeling secure for the citizens are ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Judiciary Spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei vowed that the criminals who have staged the recent acid attacks on a number of women in the Central city of Isfahan will soon be given a harsh punishment. "One of the unpleasant and criminal acts last week was the acid attacks in Isfahan and the case with this violent action ...

A man who poured acid over a young girl's face and blinded her, should be sentenced to similar mutilation an Iranian court has ruled. The unnamed Iranian man has allegedly been told he should have his eyes gouged out, his right ear and his nose cut off after the attack on the girl which also caused her to lose her right ear. Middle Eastern reportshave ...