£1.7m and you can save your eyes: Iranian woman blinded in acid attack names her price

It will cost an Iranian man convicted of throwing acid in the face of a fellow student two million euros - or £1.7million - to escape a court-ordered blinding.

‘I announced that I want two million euros to guarantee my life and my future, and not for treatment,’ Ameneh Bahrami told the Arman newspaper.

‘It is only then that I will give up qesas (retributive justice) against Majid, although they said - and I hope it is true - that the sentence will be carried out next week,’ she added

 Revenge: Ameneh Bahrami was left with horrific scars after Majid Movahedi threw sulphuric acid in her eyes after he had begged her in vain to marry him. She is seen here holding photos of how she used to look

Twisted: Majid Movahedi had stalked Ameneh before his heinous crime

Majid Movahedi was sentenced to be blinded in both eyes in February 2009 after being convicted of hurling acid in the face of university classmate Bahrami when she repeatedly spurned his offer of marriage.

The court-ordered blinding of Movahedi was postponed at the 11th hour on Saturday. No official reason was given.

Bahrami, the driving force behind the sentence, had travelled to the Iranian capital from Spain where she now lives in the expectation of it being carried out. She even said she was ready to do the blinding herself.

Amnesty International had called on Friday for a stay of the sentence, which it described as ‘amounting to torture’.

'Regardless of how horrific the crime suffered by Ameneh Bahrami, being blinded with acid is a cruel and inhuman punishment amounting to torture,' said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, deputy director for Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme.

The Islamic sharia code in force in Iran provides for eye-for-an-eye-style retributive justice, most commonly for murder or those convicted of causing intentional physical injury.

Bahrami, who was 24 when she met Movahedi in 2002, has been undergoing medical treatment for her disfigurement for years in Spain. She is blind in both eyes and still has serious injuries to her face and body.

A number of acid attacks have been reported in Iran in recent years and the press has been generally supportive of Bahrami, publishing sympathetic interviews with her, and photographs of her face before and after the attack.

In December 2010, Iran's Supreme Court upheld another sentence to blinding handed down against a man convicted of an acid attack against his wife's lover that deprived him of his sight. There has been no reported confirmation of it ever being carried out.