{"id":7351,"date":"2019-07-31T10:58:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T05:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7351"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T05:58:53","slug":"ex-tehran-mayor-sentenced-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7351","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Tehran Mayor Sentenced to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former mayor of the Iranian capital has been sentenced to death after he a court found him guilty of killing his wife, according to Iran&#8217;s judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>A prominent reformist, Najafi was found guilty of shooting dead his second wife Mitra Ostad at their home in the capital on May 28, said Iran\u2019s judiciary spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The charge sheet included premeditated murder, battery and possession of an illegal firearm,&#8221; quoted by the judiciary&#8217;s official, adding &#8220;The sentence is not yet final and can be appealed at the supreme court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s body was found in a bathtub after Najafi, 67, turned himself in and confessed to killing her.<\/p>\n<p>Najafi married Ostad without divorcing his first wife, unusual in Iran where polygamy is legal but socially frowned upon.<\/p>\n<p>Najafi&#8217;s lawyer wants to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Najafi, a reformist, mathematician and professor, also served as science and education minister in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former mayor of the Iranian capital has been sentenced to death after he a court found him guilty of killing his wife, according to Iran&#8217;s judiciary. A prominent reformist, Najafi was found guilty of shooting dead his second wife Mitra Ostad at their home in the capital on May 28, said Iran\u2019s judiciary spokesman. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7360,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}