Iran: temporary

Iran´s Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi, started promoting ´temporary marriages´ as a way to avoid extramarital sex and to ´solve social problems´.Thursday he said so in Qum.
Shia Islam allows a man and woman to marry for a fixed period of time, ranging from an hour to a century.A man can also have any number of temporary marriages(sigha).
Sunni Muslims say it is illegal and akin to prostitution.
Iranian society still looks down on temporary marriage as a cover for prostitution.
Young people use temporary marriages to go on holiday together.
The Minister, a cleric himself, got a lot of criticism. There are already tens of thousands of children from temporary marriages whose fathers will not acknowledge them and are therefore considered illegitimate.



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