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The high-profile murder trial of a former Tehran mayor who confessed to killing his wife on national television opened on Saturday, Iranian media reported. Reformist Mohammad Ali Najafi, a close confidant of President Rouhani, appeared in a Tehran criminal court, accused of shooting his second wife Mitra Ostad at their home in the upper-class neighbourhood of Saadat Abad in northwestern Tehran.