Iran
With the help of this cleric, 2,000 couples met and wed.
As I was flipping channels, I landed on a real-life love story of sorts. It was a segment about young Iranians who were finding their spouses with the help of a hip-looking, bearded matchmaker clad in a turban and robe.
It all began when a cleric in Iran helped turn a student's crush on a peer into his first love match. Ten years later, Jafar Ardabili has successfully matched more than 2,000 couples in marriage without one divorce, reports Reza Sayeh for CNN. That's quite an impressive track record: Could Bravo's Millionaire Matchmaker top that?
With his wife, Ardabili founded the Amin International Family … Read More
Iranian company issues ultimatum.
You thought your nagging mother was bad...
Kidding aside, this bit of news is all kinds of terrible: a state-owned Iranian gas and petro company is concerned about prostitutes and has ordered employees to marry by September or take a pink slip, reports the Feminist Daily News. It's illegal to have sex outside of marriage in Iran.
According to the BBC, here's the edict from on-high:
"As being married is one of the criteria of employment, we are announcing for the last time that all the female and male colleagues have until September 21 to go ahead … Read More
An Iranian man is being forced to give lots of flowers for wife's dowry.
An Iranian man has been accused by his wife of being stingy and now must pay the piper. In Iran a woman can claim her dowry either during her marriage or at the time of divorce. And this broad has had enough of her husband’s tightfistedness, claiming that he refused to pay for a cup of coffee for her when they went to a café or diner. And the court ruled that she should receive 124,000 roses from him.
We’re not sure if Persians are prone to hyperbole (though they did refer to Cyrus the Great and subsequent shahs … Read More
Iran's police are cracking down young lovers for unbecoming behavior.
From AFP
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's police are to keep up their moral crackdown through the winter months, confronting couples whose behaviour in public is deemed to be inappropriate, officials said on Sunday.
Iran in April launched what has proved to be its most severe moral crackdown in years, handing out warnings to thousands of people for dress deemed to be unIslamic and other outlawed behaviour.
In a sign of the seriousness of the drive, police are to continue the crackdown in winter, the Fars news agency reported, whereas in the past it has been restricted to the summer months when dress … Read More
