An Iranian woman living in Spain said she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her with acid.

Ameneh Bahrami, 30, told Cadena SER radio, "I am not doing this out of revenge, but rather so that the suffering I went through is not repeated."

Blinded ... Ameneh Bahrami. Credit:AP

Late last year an Iranian court ruled that the man - identified only as Majid - who blinded Ms Bahrami in 2004 after she spurned him, should also be blinded with acid, based on the Islamic law system of "qisas", or eye for an eye retribution.

But Ms Bahrami, who moved to Spain to get medical treatment after the attack, said on Wednesday that, under Iranian law, she is entitled to blind her attacker in only one eye, unless she pays €20,000 ($39,000), because in Iran women are not considered equal to men.