Nasser Mohammadkhani (, born 7 September 1957) is a retired

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. He was a striker during his playing days. He also worked as a coach for Tehran's Persepolis Club.

Honours

Club

;Persepolis *

Asian Cup Winners' Cup The Asian Cup Winners' Cup was an Asian football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-Asian club competition organised by Asian Football Confedera ...

(1): 1990–91 **Runner-up: 1992–93 *

Hazfi Cup Hazfi Cup (, ) formerly known as Pahlavi Cup () is an Iranian knockout football competition held annually by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran. The Iranian Football League, Iranian football league was not held during the 1980s, h ...

(1): 1991–92 * Tehran Province League (3): 1982–83, 1989–90, 1990–91 *Tehran Hazfi Cup (1): 1981–82 ;Qatar SC * Qatari Sheikh Jassim Cup (1): 1987

National

;Iran * Asian Games Gold Medal (1):

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

Personal life

Mohammadkhani was involved in a public court case in

, after his wife Laleh Saharkhizan was found murdered in her apartment on 9 October 2002.

Shahla Jahed Khadijeh Shahla Jahed (10 May 1969 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian nurse who was sentenced to death for her involvement in the murder of her boyfriend's wife. She was hanged on 1 December 2010, being the 146th person to be executed in Iran i ...

, his mistress in a temporary marriage arrangement was convicted of the murder of Laleh. Mohammadkhani was in Germany when the killing happened, but it emerged later that he was "temporarily married" to Jahed, a practice allowed under

Shia Islam Shia Islam is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political Succession to Muhammad, successor (caliph) and as the spiritual le ...

and thus under Iranian law. Jahed was executed in 2010, following the completion of the appeals procedure. In 2008, the then chief of Iran's judiciary,

Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (, 15 August 1948 – 24 December 2018) was an Iranian-Iraqi Twelver Shia cleric and conservative politician who was the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council from 14 August 2017 until his death on 24 December ...

, ordered a fresh investigation and did not sanction her execution ruling that her initial conviction (based as it was on a confession she made under duress) was unacceptable.

International goals

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1957 births Living people Iranian men's footballers Iran men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Rah Ahan Tehran F.C. players Persepolis F.C. players Qatar SC players Iranian expatriate men's footballers Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Asian Games footballers for Iran 1984 AFC Asian Cup players Footballers at the 1986 Asian Games Footballers at the 1990 Asian Games Qatar Stars League players Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games Footballers from Tehran Asian Games gold medalists in football {{Iran-footy-forward-stub