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  • Iran Increases Marriage Age

    06/23/2002 6:25:42 PM PDT · by shrinkermd · 17 replies · 216+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 23 June 2002
    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's arbitrating body has approved a reformist law increasing the minimum marriage age from 9 to 13 for girls and from 14 to 15 for boys. The new law stipulates that marriage of girls under 13 and boys under 15 will require court permission, the government-run daily Iran reported on Sunday. It gave no further details. The law's approval is seen as a victory for Iran's reformists, who have sought to promote women's rights. The elected legislature passed a similar bill in August 2000, but the hard-line Guardian Council rejected it as contradicting Islamic sharia law....