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 ...

"We Iranian girls are not afraid of anything anymore ... "Our young people are under a lot of pressure," she said. A home, a car, and marriage are all "far-fetched dreams." ...

In response, tens of thousands of Iranian women marched in protest ... It lowered the minimum age of marriage for girls, first to 13 and then to 9 (it raised the age to 13 again in 2002), and ...

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 ...

an Iranian Kurdish woman who was reportedly beaten by the "morality police" for improperly wearing her hijab, have transformed into a nationwide revolution led by women and school-aged girls.