Family spares ex-Tehran mayor

TEHRAN: A former mayor of Tehran sentenced to death over the murder of his wife has been spared by her family in a post shared on Instagram yesterday. Mohammad Ali Najafi, 67, was sentenced to death last month after being convicted of shooting dead his second wife Mitra Ostad at their home in the Iranian capital on May 28. “My father, my mother and our Mahyar (his sister’s son) forgive Mr Mohammad Ali Najafi” after mediation that involved others, her brother Masood Ostad wrote. “We are happy that we made no deal for the blood of that honorable (person),” he added. Najafi remains behind bars after also receiving a two-year jail sentence for illegal possession of a firearm.