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A sad Iranian soap

AFP, Tehran
The mistress of an Iranian football star has been sentenced to death for murdering the wife of her lover, press reports said Thursday in a case that has riveted the Islamic republic by breaking a wealth of taboos.
After a one week closed-door trial, Khadijeh Shahla Jahed was found guilty of the gruesome and premeditated stabbing nearly two years ago of Laleh Saharkhizan, the wife of former national soccer hero and top coach Nasser Mohammad Khani.
If the sentence is confirmed by the supreme court, she will be executed by hanging.
A star of the game in the late 1980s who went on to coach Tehran's Persepolis club, Khani was in Germany on a training trip at the time of the killing.
He had initially been suspected of complicity and held in jail for several months, but was released after his jealous lover confessed to acting alone.
Shahla Jahed had been his
temporary wife, a practice approved of in the Islamic republic. Their temporary
marital status meant that Khani escaped any charges of adultery.
In a practice unique to Shiite Islam, Muslim males in the Islamic republic can take on temporary wives for periods ranging from just a few hours to several decades.
Khani was, however, sentenced to 74 lashes after Judge Fakhreddin Jafarzadeh found him guilty of taking drugs with his mistress at their love nest in leafy north Tehran.
Shahla Jahed too faces the lash before her hanging after also being convicted of narcotics consumption.
The press here has seized on the trial, which mixed Iran's favorite spectator sport with murder and the taboo topics of sex and drugs thrown in for good measure.
The four days of hearings were reportedly marked by vicious slanging matches between the former soccer star, the accused and the victim's family.
Even state television, which is not usually given to such topics, gave substantial coverage to the case.
"I will watch the hanging," Khani reportedly shouted after the
death sentence was handed down against his ex-lover, who was sent into a fit of frenzied screaming when she learned she would go to the gallows.
Arrested the day after the murder, Shahla Jahed had held her silence for 11 months, but later confessed. She then blamed "Satan" for the killing.
"Yes, I am guilty of loving Nasser," she screamed in the court house, demanding her trial be held in Azadi stadium, the 100,000-capacity home ground of the Persepolis club.
The distraught mother of the victim reportedly shouted back that the killer should be hanged in the stadium.
Although many executions are carried out publicly in Iran, most take place inside prison.
According to the press, Khani's wife was apparently unaware of his other life of sex and drugs.
"She suspected something was going on, because she regularly complained that she was getting phone calls during the night from another woman telling her she didn't deserve Nasser," the mother and sister of the victim were both quoted as saying.