10 January 2006 :

an 18-year-old Iranian woman who killed a man she said tried to rape her was sentenced to death for murder, according to the Etemad newspaper.
The woman identified only as Nazanin claimed self defence during her trial after she stabbed a man to death in March 2005. The paper said Nazanin, who was 17 at the time, had been out with her niece and their boyfriends on a road west of Tehran when two men started harassing them and then tried to rape them after the boyfriends had run away. "I committed murder to defend myself and my niece, I did not mean to kill him. I did not know what to do because nobody came to help us," the paper quoted her as saying during her trial.