05-05-2025
Horrifying moment Iranian father 'brutally stabs his 18-year-old beautician daughter to death in the street after she revealed his affair'
A young beautician has been stabbed to death in the streets of the Iranian city of Islamshahr by her father, after she was accused of revealing that he was having an affair.
Fatemeh Soltani, an 18-year-old living in the repressive country, had been working secretly at a beauty salon, refusing to tell her family about her job due to her fear of her father's reaction.
But her father managed to find her workplace by booking an appointment through a number listed on her business' Instagram page.
When Fatemeh realised that her father was the one who made the appointment, she reportedly called her mother in distress.
Fatemeh was reportedly killed on the salon's doorstep, with horrific CCTV footage showing her father dragging her to the floor, kneeling over her and stabbing her repeatedly.
The horrific crime took place while people passed by on foot and in cars.
The father reportedly only stopped when one passer-by screamed.
A close friend of the family told local media: 'Fatemeh had been living separately from her father and the family for some time due to domestic violence and had achieved financial independence.'
The horrific crime took place while people passed by on foot and in cars.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran's Women's committee said in response to Soltani's death: 'The root of the violence against women and the primary cause of these murders and social tragedies lies in the misogynistic clerical regime, which, in over 46 years, has not even passed the bill to prevent violence against women in its parliament.
'In this regime, the abuse and even killing of women carries little consequence.
'The Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran has called on the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran and the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women to investigate this painful situation and to expel representatives of this misogynistic regime from international bodies.'
Iran does not provide accurate statistics on rates of femicide, meaning that local newspapers are often the only reliable source to track these cases.
The Etemad newspaper reported that 78 women were murdered by their relatives or family members between March and September last year.
Meanwhile, the Shargh newspaper reported that in 2023 male family members killed at least 165 women between 2021 and 2023.
Of these, 27 women were murdered in the first three months of 2023 alone, with 'honour killings' cited as a primary motive.
These figures reflect only reported murders, and the actual number is likely much higher.
