Iran’s Islamofascist barbarians have either come to their senses or caved in to international pressure on the infamous case of Nazanin Fatehi, an unjustly accused Iranian girl whom we’ve blogged about here at Publius as a worthy freedom cause.

Nazanin, age 17, was walking in the park with either her little sister or her boyfriend, when she was beset by a pack of brutal thugs who sought to rape her. By Iranian Islamofascist law, she was supposed to just lay back and enjoy it (being a temptress and all), and then take 100 lashes from the state for getting raped if she was single, or else be stoned, the penalty in Iran for a married women who gets raped.

Instead, Nazanin fought back, stabbing the savage animal with a small knife she was carrying. No one in that land of Islamofascist chivalry (/s) came to her aid as she faced her attackers alone. But by any human standards, Nazanin’s actions were a legitimate act of self-defense and the world spoke out to condemn Iran’s response.

The clown court in Iran spared Nazanin her life but remained unclear on the concept. In insult to injury, the court ordered Nazanin to pay blood money to the family of her attacker to reward them for foisting their brute onto society, sending the unmistakeable message that producing thugs should be a profitable enterprise. Nazanin’s family is appealing that ruling because all she did was self-defense.

If Iran were a civilized society, the dead barbarian’s family would be paying Nazanin damages instead, particularly because she spent two illegitimate years in an Iranian prison and god knows what happened to here there. As it is, international pressure at least spared her the hangman’s noose and Nazanin will in the end live.

One good thing happened in Iran today. Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review has the whole story – with lots of links – here.