AFP – Jan 15 – The site will launch in the next few days and promote long-term marriages among the under-30s who make up 55% of Iran's 77M people. There are strict prohibitions on sexual contact before marriage in Iran, but that can be circumvented under the Shiite form of Islam practised in Iran by "sigheh," or temporary marriage, under which a couple can contract matrimony for as little as an hour. The government is seeking to discourage the practice and as many as 300 websites deemed "illegal and immoral" that often encourage sigheh.
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