A former mayor of Tehran Mohammad Ali Najafi who murdered his wife has been released on bail, his lawyer said.
Najafi was sentenced to death last month after being convicted of shooting dead his second wife Mitra Ostad at their home in the Iranian capital on May 28.
Ostad's family had originally appealed for "qesas" - the Islamic law of retribution - to be applied, which would have seen the death penalty served. But her family decided to grant him a reprieve on August 14.
"Najafi, who was in prison for killing his wife, was freed on bail" of $92,400, IRNA cited his lawyer Hamid Reza Gudarzi as saying.
Gudarzi said his client was allowed bail because the qesas sentence had not been applied, and a brother of the victim has said the family did not want "blood money."
"The warrant for temporary detention has been changed to bail and he was freed from prison," the lawyer added, although he still faces trial of premeditated murder that could carry a three-10 year jail term.
