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A combination photograph shows a woman identified as Ameneh before and after she was blinded with acid in an incident which Etemad-e Melli newspaper said happened in 2004 in Tehran.
Monday, Dec. 15, 2008

Open quoteAt an age at which I should be putting on a wedding dress, I am asking for someone's eyes to be dripped with acid.Close quote

  • AMENEH BAHRAMI,
  • a woman in Tehran, Iran, who was blinded when a spurned suitor poured a bucket of sulfuric acid over her head. A court has since ordered her attacker be punished by the same method
Photo: EREMAD-E MELLI / HO / REUTERS | Source: Washington Post