Nasser Mohammadkhani

Naser Mohammadkhani

Personal information
Date of birth	(1957-09-07) 7 September 1957
Place of birth	Tehran, Iran
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1975–1976	Sanaati Behshahr
1976–1981	Rah Ahan
1981–1986	Persepolis	152	(59)
1986–1989	Qatar Sports
1989–1994	Persepolis
International career
1982–1990	Iran	25	(18)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Naser Mohammadkhani (Persian: ناصر محمدخانی‎‎, born 7 September 1957) is a retired Iranian football striker. He also worked as a coach for Tehran's Persepolis club.

Awards and honours

Country

• Top Goal Scorer 1984 AFC Asian Cup
• Fourth Place 1984 AFC Asian Cup with Iran national football team
• Gold Medalist 1990 Asian Games with Iran national football team

Club

• Winner of Tehran Football League with Persepolis FC on numerous seasons.
• Winner of Asian Cup Winners Cup 1990 with Persepolis FC

Personal life

Mohammadkhani was involved in a public court case in Iran, after his wife Laleh Saharkhizan was found murdered in her apartment on 9 October 2002. Shahla Jahed, his mistress in a temporary marriage arrangement allowed under Iranian law 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. Jahed was executed in 2010, following the completion of the appeals procedure. In 2008, the then chief of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, 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.