"We do not think the Afghan government has any intention of including these punishments in its penal code," said a US official who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the topic.
Women's rights groups, including the Feminist Majority Foundation, sent President Obama a letter last summer, requesting that the administration remove Brunei from TPP negotiations or suspend TPP talks until Brunei revokes its penal code.
Jordan amended its penal code to expand the definition of terrorism to cover a broad range of loosely defined offenses.
In December, Isis released a copy of its penal code, which listed so-called "crimes" punishable by amputation, stoning and crucifixion.
Only if the state incorporates such feuds as instruments of its penal code, he wildly reasons, can the past be appeased and made to relinquish its hold.
But in the past two years, Turkey has revamped its penal code and imposed life sentences for such killings, known as honor killings, regardless of the killer's age.
Its penal code, taken from Mussolini's Italy, puts serious curbs on freedom of expression, but Turkey's leading writers have never toed the line.
The European Union has demanded that Turkey change its penal code to ensure freedom of expression, but Turkey has yet to act on those demands.
Afghanistan is involved in a painstaking effort to reform its penal code, and as part of that one committee is tasked with handling sharia law.
In reaction to the news, Amnesty International, which had urged Bahrami to pardon Movahedi, called on Iran to review its penal code.
