Marriage at Age Nine and Other Repressive Laws under the Ayatollah
By Mehr News Agency, CC BY 4.0, The legal minimum age for girls to marry in Iran is nine, as long as she has the court’s permission and her father’s approval. Otherwise, she has to wait until she is thirteen. Furthermore, sex within marriage is considered consensual and legal under Iranian law. At least 27,000 girls under the age of 15 were married in a