Iran officials to promote temporary Marriage

[Niloufar]

Iran talks up temporary marriages

By Frances Harrison
BBC News, Tehran

Unmarried Iranian couples can fall foul of strict Islamic morality laws

Iran's Interior Minister, Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, has started promoting temporary marriage as a solution to the country's social problems.
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 - or sigheh, as they are known.
However, Iranian society still looks down on temporary marriage as a cover for prostitution.

Iran's interior minister, himself a cleric, said marriage was a human need and temporary marriage should not be used just for sex but to solve social problems.
He said there needed to be a cultural change to allow this.
He also said couples should marry at an earlier age.

Strong taboo
Iran first started promoting temporary marriage as an alternative to living in sin 15 years ago.
The then President, Hashemi Rafsanjani, said it was a way for men and women to satisfy their sexual needs.

Iran's police have recently cracked down on "un-Islamic" dress

He even said there was no need for a cleric: the couple could read out an oath in private in order to marry.

These days, some girls who want to travel with their boyfriends and be allowed to stay in the same hotel room or avoid arrest by the moral police might have a temporary marriage.

Poor women who need financial support also do it.
But on the whole there is still a strong taboo against the practice.
One woman MP asked the interior minister if a man came to ask for the hand of his daughter in marriage, would he willingly tell him how many temporary marriages she had had.

Another warned that promoting temporary marriages would cause thousands of problems.
There are already tens of thousands of children from temporary marriages whose fathers will not acknowledge them and are therefore considered illegitimate.
One Friday prayer leader has suggested that Iran needs a centre to help young people find spouses. Meanwhile, a hardline newspaper has complained that a travel agent in Tehran has been advertising holidays by the Caspian Sea for couples who want to have temporary marriages, offering accommodation and a cleric to register the marriage.

 

[Niloufar]

Shargh-

ازدواج موقت با جسارت ترويج شود
گروه اجتماعي؛

وزير کشور روز پنجشنبه در نخستين همايش هم انديشي حجاب، مسووليت ها و اختيارات دولت اسلامي، در آتش تنوري دميد که يک دهه قبل نيز در ايران زبانه کشيده بود؛ ترويج ازدواج موقت براي حل مشکل ازدواج جوانان. مساله اي که بيش از يک دهه قبل حجت الاسلام هاشمي رفسنجاني رئيس جمهور وقت در خطبه هاي نماز جمعه به آن پرداخته بود.

وزير کشور در اين همايش ترويج ازدواج موقت را يکي از راه هاي رفع مشکل اجتماعي جوانان در زمينه ازدواج دانست و گفت؛ اسلام، دين جامع و کاملي است و براي تمامي رفتارها و نيازها راهکار دارد که ازدواج موقت، يکي از راهکارهاي پاسخگويي به نياز جوانان است.

به گزارش فارس وزير کشور گفت؛ ما نبايد از ترويج ازدواج موقت جوانان در جامعه که حکم خدا است، پروا داشته باشيم و اين مساله بايد با جسارت در کشور ترويج شود. وي گفت؛ ازدواج موقت، تنها براي کامجويي مردان داراي همسر نيست که بروند و براي بار چندم ازدواج کنند. وي اظهار داشت؛ مگر امکان دارد که اسلام نسبت به جوان 15 ساله اي که خداوند شهوت را در وجود او قرار داده، بي تفاوت باشد.

وزير کشور با تاکيد بر اينکه ازدواج موقت تنها براي کامروايي مردان متاهل نيست، گفت؛ براي ارضاي ميل جنسي جواناني که امکان ازدواج ندارند، بايستي فکري شود. پورمحمدي با اشاره به اينکه در جامعه ما ميان پسر و دختر ارتباط وجود دارد، پرسيد که آيا بايد از کنار اين مساله چشم بسته بگذريم. ...
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[pansari]

Yea, this has to be the dumbest thing i have ever heard of. Simply moronic

 

[Agent Smith]

What's the difference between a 1-hour temporary marriage and regulated prostitution? Except that the woman is guaranteed to be at least paid in the second situation.

 

[Messi]

"However, Iranian society still looks down on temporary marriage as a cover for prostitution."
Typical Frances Harrison bullshit. Get a life loser. Sigheh is very popular in Iran, and nobody considers it as prostitution, since it is allowed by the religion, but I guess Ms. Harrison thinks its prostitution...ok.

 

[Behrooz_C]

Well, it's prostitution with the difference that it's documented on paper. Otherwise, why are they doing it? Because they are in love? Bullshit! Let's call a spade a spade.

"However, Iranian society still looks down on temporary marriage as a cover for prostitution."
Typical Frances Harrison bullshit. Get a life loser. Sigheh is very popular in Iran, and nobody considers it as prostitution, since it is allowed by the religion, but I guess Ms. Harrison thinks its prostitution...ok.

Actually she is right. Perhaps you didn't get the point of this suggestion about temporary marriage. There is a difference between Sigheh to become mahram for sex, and 'temporary marriage' as it is meant in this latest suggestion. Try going to a young virgin girl's house to ask her brother or father if you could 'temporarily marry' their daughter/sister so you could be mahram for sex. See what will happen. On the other hand Sigheh alone is usually meant for women who have married once and are either widowed or divorced. It's not appropriate for first timers, never has been. This government suggestion is that it can be. It's outrageous.
Iranian families want to see their young daughters marry and go live forever. Not get married on a temporary basis for sex and then separate and go temporarily marry someone else and so on and on. That is what Francis Harrison says is frowned upon, rightly so too.

Iranian culture is not always about Islam. The religion also allows men to marry 4 times but how many men in Iran do you know that do that? Very very few. I never heard of any. It's because aside from the religion, our culture looks down upon it.

 

[Farsi Zaban]

Iranian women should really up the ante on this. One hour sounds too much like a wam bam thank you mam scenario. Between exchanging pleasantries, the undressing and haji getting his boner there won't be any room for foreplay. Would appear to be a pretty sloppy love making session from the their point of view. This would be something that bill oreilly would support.

 

[AliMR]

this is haram! this is a sin! this is a bida'e!
may God guide them to the straight path and may they stop this evil practice.

 

[Faran]

50% of Iran's girls are of negotiable virtue.

In my opinion, the government wants to keep Islam alive in people's consciousness as they do this stuff. They are promoters of prostitution as well, but they would like it to have an Islamic edge to it so that religiosity stays alive in peoples' minds.

 

[navid007]

ey baba pas chera vaghti ma 15 salemoon islam in chizaro azad nakarde bid !

 

[foreveriranian]

Francis Harrison and Linsey (from Channel 4) are just really ugly and oghdehy...they report on a country they know jack all about.

 

[Behrooz_C]

Francis Harrison and Linsey (from Channel 4) are just really ugly and oghdehy...they report on a country they know jack all about.

I don't know about the channel4 reporter but Francis Harrison is married to an Iranian and lives in Tehran. She has been living there for some time.

As I said earlier, I don't think what she said about temporary marriage is at all wrong. She was quite accurate.

 

[Niloufar]

"However, Iranian society still looks down on temporary marriage as a cover for prostitution."
Typical Frances Harrison bullshit. Get a life loser. Sigheh is very popular in Iran, and nobody considers it as prostitution, since it is allowed by the religion, but I guess Ms. Harrison thinks its prostitution...ok.

As Behrooz well pointed out, Sigheh is not popular(liked by population) in Iran and ppl do consider is as prostitution,it is just practiced by some to avoid the hassles of getting caught/arrested by komiteh when they go on a trip, or when they cheat on their wives. Its basically legalization of prostitution, and every couple who does that knows it well. but as Harrison pointed well,some poor women do that bc of the $ they can get from their temporary spouse.

Ask any sigheh girl/guy's family to 30 if they are ok with that and dont consider it as prostitution to 30 how unpopular it is in Iran..

but these filthy ppl, try to portrait Sigheh as a legal common religious practice to legitimize their own(and their likes of ppl) act of prostitution.

 

[Fatso]

I think this brings us all to another discussion?
Do any of you think prostitution should be legalized?

 

[ardy]

Do any of you think prostitution should be legalized?

Yeahhhhhhhhy.



Kidding aside,I don't think legalizing it would be beneficial as far as the child prostitution and women's values in the society are concern.

 

[gdavoudgdavoudg]

sighe is not part of islam
it is part of shiasm which is mostly built on the things imam Ali said apparently
i say this all the time, if you want to have a proper muslim country built on islamic values then do it properly. if you dont want to, then dont be muslim country.

 

[footballeirani]

I bet you the rate of youngsters getting married in Iran is going down. Due to the fact that they can not support for their family and the expectations on what they should have.

So the idiots came up with a plan to ease the sexual frustration by proposing what they have been doing for themselves, which would be sigheh.

Seriously who could afford to get married in Iran, miri Khastegari and they ask you khone dari? Mashin dari? Kar dari? Villa dari? Doodol dari? All these expectations man. :sad3:

 

[AliMR]

I bet you the rate of youngsters getting married in Iran is going down. Due to the fact that they can not support for their family and the expectations on what they should have.

So the idiots came up with a plan to ease the sexual frustration by proposing what they have been doing for themselves, which would be sigheh.

Seriously who could afford to get married in Iran, miri Khastegari and they ask you khone dari? Mashin dari? Kar dari? Villa dari? Doodol dari? All these expectations man. :sad3:

it is our culture that is the problem. we want the guy to have EVERYTHING, and they want the girl to waltz in and sit on the queens chair! hame shodan DOKHTARE MALEKE.

 

[Meehandoost]

Iran's Interior Minister, Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, has started promoting temporary marriage as a solution to the country's social problems. 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 - or sigheh, as they are known. However, Iranian society still looks down on temporary marriage as a cover for prostitution.

The then President, Hashemi Rafsanjani, said it was a way for men and women to satisfy their sexual needs. He even said there was no need for a cleric: the couple could read out an oath in private in order to marry.

Doctors of divinity spend time in waste with bedroom and bathroom habits of people as opposed to meaningful matters of above the waist and fail to improve the fortunes of the nation. How is a one hour marriage going to solve "country's social problems", or why is it that only MEN are the solution to "country's social problems"? Clearly, temporary marriage and forced veil, by the virtue of their discrimination and subjugation not to mention humiliation, are obstacles in achieving equality which is a prerequisite for unity and prosperity of peoples.

 

[Mr Thick]

Rooz be rooz darigh az dirooz.