The same law provided incentives for early marriage such as interest free ... to obtain a passport and travel outside the country. Iranian girls and women are protesting discriminatory rules ...

This included lowering the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 9, and girls this young can still be married in Iran today. Iranian women have not only been forced to veil but have been ...

Iranian women have been at the forefront ... as divorce became again the unilateral prerogative of the man. The age of marriage was reduced for girls to nine," Esfandiari says.

On Nov. 16, 2022, Iranian courts issued a second known death ... his memoirs appeared to acknowledge that young girls in prison were systemically raped in the 1980s: He writes: "many of those ...

In Iran, virginity before marriage is important for many girls and their families ... Iraq and Turkey. The Iranian Medical Organisation maintain that they only carry out virginity testing in ...

When my dad proposed marriage to my mother they were in their ... in which my brother frets over the Iranian girls who are protesting. He worries about how to raise his own daughter in this ...

A female Iranian rock climber climber who competed in an oversea competition without a hijab has been forced to leave the country after facing persecution. Elnaz Rekabi gained global attention ...