{"id":6200,"date":"2016-11-09T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T23:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=6200"},"modified":"2016-11-09T18:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T23:09:26","slug":"iran-regime-blinds-man-on-the-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6200\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran regime blinds man on the election day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6201 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016118213957332332071_Man-being-blinded-for-punishment-in-Iran-file-photo-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"2016118213957332332071_man-being-blinded-for-punishment-in-iran-file-photo\" width=\"446\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016118213957332332071_Man-being-blinded-for-punishment-in-Iran-file-photo-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016118213957332332071_Man-being-blinded-for-punishment-in-Iran-file-photo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/>On the same day that more than 220 million Americans go to the polls, Iranian regime blinded both eyes of a man to punish him<br \/>\nAssociated Press cited Iranian media on Nov. 8 that the authorities in Iran on the basis of &#8216;retribution in kind&#8217; and &#8216;an eye for an eye&#8217; have blinded a man for throwing harmful chemicals in the face of a four-year-old girl back in 2009 that destroyed her vision.<br \/>\nThe harsh punishment of totally blinding a man, despite happening in rare cases, but still a brutal act to be done by state regardless of the crime.<br \/>\nThe semi-official Fars news agency affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said Tuesday&#8217;s punishment was only the second time the Islamic Republic has implemented the &#8216;eye for an eye&#8217; legal provision, which was first approved in 1958. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/eventsen\/47\" target=\"_blank\"> March 20 <\/a>15 a man convicted of blinding another man in an acid attack was blinded in one eye in a prison near Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>On the same day that more than 220 million Americans go to the polls, Iranian regime blinded both eyes of a man to punish him <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6200\/\" title=\"Iran regime blinds man on the election day\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-world","category-news","category-terrorism-fundamentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}