A university professor whose death sentence was repealed after nationwide protests will serve nearly four years in jail, his lawyer said
Sunday.
Hashem Aghajari, a history professor at Tehran's Teachers Training University,
also is barred from running for office or occupying a government post for five
years, according to lawyer Saleh Nikbakht.
Aghajari was convicted of insulting Islam
and questioning clerical rule during a speech in western Iran last June. In
November, he was condemned to death, banned from teaching for 10 years, exiled
for eight years to three remote cities and sentenced to receive 74 lashes.