Iranian man who murdered teenage daughter outside salon receives eight year sentence

Jerusalem Post/Middle East/Iran NewsOver a year after stabbing his daughter outside a salon in Iran, the father of Fatemeh Soltani was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Tehran Criminal Court. Follow us on GoogleX post showing Fatemeh Soltani and her father, who stabbed her outside of her salon. (photo credit: INSTAGRAM SCREENSHOT)ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARDJULY 27, 2026 12:40Updated: JULY 27, 2026 12:47The father of Fatemeh Soltani, who murdered the 18-year-old nail artist in April last year outside a salon, was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay diyah (blood money) by the the Tehran Criminal Court, according to a social media account taken over by the victim’s family, Iranian media reports, and human rights organizations.Soltani was stabbed by her father in a violent attack on the street, witnessed by multiple passersby, and died on her way to the hospital. Video of the attack quickly spread online, with rumors that the young woman had been beheaded by her father for seeking economic independence.Her father, according to the conservative Iranian media site Tabnak, went to the police after the killing to claim he had murdered his daughter over “moral issues.” However, the victim’s brother told Khabar Online last year that his sister was killed because she had uncovered her father’s affair.In court, Soltani’s mother testified that her husband had been a violent man and that her daughter had feared that he would use honor as a way to avoid qisa (a retributive punishment that allows the family of murder victims to demand the death penalty)."I lived under the same roof as Fatemeh's father for 27 years. I endured every hardship to build a good life and raise two well-mannered children. But from the very beginning, my husband was an angry man,” she testified, according to Tabnak. “He beat me many times, once breaking my nose and another time my teeth. He repeatedly held a knife to my throat and once stabbed my hand several times. I filed numerous complaints against him in different courts for verbal abuse and assault. He even once smashed the windows of my brother's shop.Fatemeh Soltani (credit: screenshot)Soltani's father defended his actions in court“Then, in 2023, my husband cheated on me. My daughter found out and showed me his chats with another woman. From that point on, my husband threatened Fatemeh so severely that, in a voice message she sent me, she wished for death. He knew that in his village someone had killed their own child and that parents cannot be sentenced to qisas for killing their children. He would say that whenever he wanted, he could run over his children with his car.”In court, Soltani’s father defended himself, claiming that he only beat his wife when she provoked him by dressing in a way inconsistent with the teachings of Islam, claiming she “practiced spirit summoning” and created financial stress for him.He claimed he only began stabbing his daughter when she started insulting him for disgracing the family.“She kept insulting me. I became enraged by what she was saying. I picked up a knife that had been under the seat since Sizdah Bedar and stabbed her once. Then, after she got out of the car, I stabbed her several more times,” he told the courts. "Suddenly I came to my senses and heard a woman screaming that I had killed my daughter. Only then did I realize what I had done to Fatemeh."Follow us on Google