{"id":39349,"date":"2013-10-03T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=39349"},"modified":"2013-10-03T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:11:55","slug":"iran-passes-a-law-allowing-men-to-marry-their-13-year-old-adopted-daughters-just-as-the-countrys-new-president-touts-himself-as-a-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=39349","title":{"rendered":"Iran passes a law allowing men to marry their 13-year-old adopted daughters just as the country&#8217;s new president touts himself as a moderate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iran-children.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39347\" alt=\"iran-children\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iran-children.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iran-children.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iran-children-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iran-children-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A new law in Iran that allows men to marry their adopted daughters at the age of 13 has caused major concern that the country&#8217;s new president is not as progressive as originally thought.<\/p>\n<p>President Hassan Rouhani has been hailed as a new moderate voice in the controversial Middle Eastern government but the approval of the new law shows that the extreme beliefs in the intolerant country have not evaporated.<\/p>\n<p>The law was approved by the Iranian members of parliament and maintains that girls can marry with the permission of their father at the age of 13 and young boys at the age of 15.<\/p>\n<p>The law in question pertains to the legal marriage age, but the concern about incest is an additional factor for human rights advocates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This bill is legalizing pedophilia,&#8217; lawyer Shadi Sadr, who works for the group Justice for Iran, told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s not part of the Iranian culture to marry your adopted child&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>There is some question whether the law will get the final stamp of approval by the country&#8217;s Governing Council, but the prospect has activists outraged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A new law in Iran that allows men to marry their adopted daughters at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,140,137],"tags":[739],"class_list":["post-39349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region","category-world","tag-iran","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}