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A man who decapitated his wife and paraded through the streets clutching her severed head received a sentence of just eight years in an Iranian prison.

He avoided a more severe punishment after her parents reportedly chose not to invoke Iran’s Islamic law of retribution.

Mona Heydari, a mother of one, was only 17 when she was dragged from a car outside her family home and murdered in February 2022, according to court documents.

Her husband Sajjad Heydari, together with his brother Heydar, carried out the savage killing in Ahvaz, the capital of the south-western Khuzestan Province.

A judiciary spokesman disclosed that the lenient sentence was imposed because Mona’s parents had “pardoned” him for the killing rather than seeking retribution.

Mona, who had been married off at just 12, had initially fled her abusive husband and escaped to Turkey with another man, the court was told.

Heydari had reportedly refused Mona’s requests for a divorce.