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Saudi embassy staffer must stand trial: Car crash victim’s family

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Press TV reports the family of an Iranian driver killed by a Saudi Embassy staffer in Tehran have called for his punishment.

The family members of an Iranian driver who was killed in a car accident by a drunk Saudi Embassy employee in Tehran have called for the employee to stand trial under the Iranian law.
A drunk employee of Saudi Arabia Embassy in Tehran killed an Iranian driver and wounded a passer-by in a fatal car accident in northeastern capital, Tehran, earlier this month.
The Saudi staffer rammed his vehicle into the Iranian car before veering off the road. The Iranian driver was killed on the spot.
Mahboubeh Habibi, wife of the victim, told Press TV: “I’m very angry because no one from the Saudi Embassy in Tehran has even come to sympathize with us or express condolences to my children for the loss of their father. The Saudi Embassy staffer should be brought to justice so that foreign diplomats will not dare to be drunk or kill Iranian nationals without being punished in the future.”
Although medical evidence showed that the embassy staffer was drunk, Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denied media reports that he had been drunk, saying, “It is untrue that he was intoxicated.”
However, Iranian police have found four bottles of alcoholic beverage in the Saudi employee’s car.

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