Iranian marriage tradition

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  • Marriage growth rate more than divorce, data shows 2021-11-24 17:17

    Marriage growth rate more than divorce, data shows

    TEHRAN – The rates of marriage and divorce in the country have increased by 23.6 percent and 16.4 percent, respectively, over the first three months of the current [Iranian calendar] year (March 21-June 21) compared to the same period last year, according to the data published by the Statistical Center of Iran.

  • Iran to mark national marriage week 2021-07-11 16:32

    Iran to mark national marriage week

    TEHRAN – National marriage week is celebrated across the country on July 12-18.

  • Marriage rate increased by 5% despite pandemic 2021-05-14 19:00

    Marriage rate increased by 5% despite pandemic

    TEHRAN – The marriage rate in Iran has increased by 5 percent over the past [Iranian calendar] year (March 2020-March 2021), despite the coronavirus pandemic, Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, has said.

  • Philanthropists donate $10m to youth marriage 2021-05-07 17:24

    Philanthropists donate $10m to youth marriage

    TEHRAN – Iranian benefactors have provided 37,864 home appliances worth 419 billion rials (nearly $10 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) to support the marriage of financially struggling couples.

  • Contrary to expectations, marriage in Iran increased amid pandemic 2021-01-05 19:02

    Contrary to expectations, marriage in Iran increased amid pandemic

    TEHRAN – Contrary to expectations, the marriage rate in Iran has been increasing over the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-December 20, 2020), amid the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Marriage threefold of divorce in Iran 2020-12-21 17:52

    Marriage threefold of divorce in Iran

    TEHRAN – Some 307,349 marriages and 99,679 divorces have been registered in the country during the first seven months of the current [Iranian calendar] year (March 21-October 21), according to the statistics of the National Organization for Civil Registration.

  • Sima Alipour 2020-06-13 17:13

    By Faranak Bakhtiari

    From suicide to happiness: meet Iran’s mother of brides

    TEHRAN – Sima Alipour, a 26-year-old girl, is called Iran’s mother of brides. A couple of years ago, she felt totally lost in the pitch blackness and decided to die, but a sparkle of hope enlightened her life so that she has helped so far hundreds of financially-struggling couples to start married life.

  • 3,000 underprivileged couples to be provided with home appliances 2019-07-30 21:30

    3,000 underprivileged couples to be provided with home appliances

    TEHRAN – Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, also known as Setad-e Ejraiy-e Farman-e Hazrat-e Emam, will provide 3,000 financially-struggling couples with necessary home appliances, an official with the foundation has said.