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Appalling Video Shows Iranian Man Carrying Wife’s Head After ‘Honor Killing’

Mona Heydari attempted to flee to Turkey but returned after she found living alone too difficult. When she returned, Sajjad Heydari and his brother bound her hands and chopped off her head.
The disturbing footage shows Sajjad Heydari grinning as he carries his wife Mona Heydari’s severed head in one hand and a blade in the other. She was 17 years old.
The disturbing footage shows Sajjad Heydari grinning as he carries his wife Mona Heydari’s severed head in one hand and a blade in the other. She was 17 years old.

A shocking video captured an Iranian man grinning as he walked through the streets clutching the severed head of his 17-year-old wife — whom he decapitated in an “honor killing,” according to a report.

The gruesome footage shows Sajjad Heydari strolling through a neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, on Saturday with Mona Heydari’s head in one hand and a blade in the other, East2West News reported.

Mona, who also was Sajjad’s cousin, had been forced to marry him when she was just 12 years old, according to the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

She reportedly suffered domestic abuse but was pressured to stay put for the sake of their 3-year-old son, even though she had expressed her wish to divorce the brute.

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