Iran to execute woman accused of stabbing attempted rapist to death

Iran is reportedly set to execute a woman who is accused of killing her attempted rapist.

According to FOX News, Rayhaneh Jabbari faces execution in Iran on Tuesday, seven years after being sentenced to death for allegedly stabbing a man she says tried to rape her.

The woman called up her mother to bid her goodbye after a sympathetic prison guard gave her his cellphone before she was taken to Rajaiy Shahr Prison to be hanged.

Following worldwide criticism and an international petition with almost 200,000 signatures, a court had earlier postponed Jabbari's execution.

However, the news of her execution came amid Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

Jabbari was convicted of the 2007 fatal stabbing of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry.

Jabbari, who was then 19 and worked as a decorator, had agreed to go to Sarbandi's office to discuss a business deal.

She claimed that the man offered her a drink laced with drugs and tried to rape her after taking her to a rundown building in a remote location, following which she stabbed him with a small pocket knife and fled while he bled to death.