The defendant, identified only by his first name Amir, was sentenced by the court to have his left eye gouged out, the hard-line daily Quds wrote in its Tuesday edition. It added that Amir was found guilty of blinding a man identified as Mehdi in one eye during a scuffle they had in the open.
Amir, who is currently languishing in jail, was also sentenced to 74 lashes and prison time.
The phrase An eye for an eye is very stringently adhered to in Irans Islamic law.