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Mohammad Sadat Khansari<\/p>\n
An Iranian regime politician turned himself in for fatally shooting his wife \u2014 then got served tea by deferential authorities before calmly confessing on state TV, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Former Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi, 67, surrendered to police after 35-year-old actress Mitra Ostad, the second of his two wives, was found shot dead, the New York Post wrote on Friday.<\/p>\n
In footage that has scandalized his nation, Najafi was shown being greeted warmly by authorities, who bowed in deference, and even sipping tea, still with no handcuffs, in the police commander\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Najafi smiled as he told a reporter for the Islamic Republic of Iranian Broadcasting (IRIB) about his \u201cmistake\u201d in shooting Ostad, 35, who he had been trying to divorce, according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lost my temper and took the gun,\u201d he said, according to the footage. \u201cShe went to the shower, and I followed her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted to scare her and showed her the gun.\u201d<\/p>\n
He blamed her \u201cspecial temperament \u2026 which caused me to make such a mistake and made her lose her life, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe panicked and attacked me in order to take the gun, and I mistakenly touched the trigger,\u201d he said, according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n
The IRIB reporter was also shown handling the gun allegedly used in the attack \u2014 suggesting it was not undergoing strict ballistics\u2019 tests \u2014 counting the number of bullets left in the chamber.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were 13 bullets in it,\u201d he says. \u201cFive were fired. Two hit the victim, and three hit the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next day, Najafi was transferred to Tehran Criminal Court and \u2014 dressed in prison garb \u2014 now claimed his wife was threatening to reveal \u201cconfidential information\u201d to the public and intelligence agencies, according to the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cMitra was controlling all of my moves and contacts,\u201d he said, offering nothing to back up his claims, the Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n
His marriage to Ostad last year had already sparked scandal as he was still married to his first wife, with whom he has a daughter, according to the Financial Times, which said polygamy was \u201csocially unacceptable\u201d in Iran despite being legal under the mullahs’ fundamentalist laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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