Stop Under-Age Marriage Laws in Iran
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Dear Clare Short MP,
We would like to commend you for standing up in support of your Iranian constituent, Omid Farivar and his family, to be saved from deportation to Iran.
The plight of the Farivar family, and in particular that of their young daughter is very harrowing indeed. Your support for the Farivar family however; also highlights the inhumane state law of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where girls are allowed to be married at the young age of 9.
This inhumane law has nothing to do with the Iranian culture, it is a state law drafted by the ruling theocracy in Iran after 1979.
The previous parliament in Iran, which many Islamic Republic apologists in the West, had pinned their hopes on, passed a bill to increase the legal age of marriage for girls from 9 to 12, but this was vetoed by the unelected Guardian Council, demonstrating clearly the futility of the Islamic Republic sham democracy.
We the undersigned, support your courageous stand in the UK parliament for the Farivar family and hope you will extend this to condemn under-age marriage laws in the Islamic Republic of Iran. We ask the world's conscience to condemn the Islamic Republic for state laws which abuse Iran's children.
Make Under-Age Marriage Laws History.
Read Clare Short's speech in support of the Farivar family [scroll down to 6.1 pm]:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060323/debtext/60323-37.htm
We would like to commend you for standing up in support of your Iranian constituent, Omid Farivar and his family, to be saved from deportation to Iran.
The plight of the Farivar family, and in particular that of their young daughter is very harrowing indeed. Your support for the Farivar family however; also highlights the inhumane state law of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where girls are allowed to be married at the young age of 9.
This inhumane law has nothing to do with the Iranian culture, it is a state law drafted by the ruling theocracy in Iran after 1979.
The previous parliament in Iran, which many Islamic Republic apologists in the West, had pinned their hopes on, passed a bill to increase the legal age of marriage for girls from 9 to 12, but this was vetoed by the unelected Guardian Council, demonstrating clearly the futility of the Islamic Republic sham democracy.
We the undersigned, support your courageous stand in the UK parliament for the Farivar family and hope you will extend this to condemn under-age marriage laws in the Islamic Republic of Iran. We ask the world's conscience to condemn the Islamic Republic for state laws which abuse Iran's children.
Make Under-Age Marriage Laws History.
Read Clare Short's speech in support of the Farivar family [scroll down to 6.1 pm]:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060323/debtext/60323-37.htm
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A Palizban
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- Stop child abuse laws in Iran
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- UK/Herts
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Khashayar Karimi
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Dr. Namdar Baghaei-Yazdi
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- Stop this inhumane law in Islamic Republic of Iran.
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- UK/London
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Mardavij
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- Thnks for your support
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- London/UK
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Farhad
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- thank you
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- UK
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lida Sheybani
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- In a world with so much lack of conscience it is applausable to see people with a conscience, Thank you for your support.
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- U.K.
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Ebrahim Mazharsolook
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- This inhuman law should be stopped.
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- Hampshire
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homayoon
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- plz help
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- london
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Potkin Azarmehr
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- shame on states that legalise child abuse
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Azizollah Esnaashari-Esfahani
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- Well done Clare Short. An MP with guts
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- Ealing/London
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Javad Esnanashari-Esfahani
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- All Iranian ex-pats with a conscience should support Clare Short in her stand against under-age marriage laws in Iran
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- Ealing/London
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ramin parham
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Iman Samiizadeh
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- North London/UK
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maryam Reissi
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- London
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Kamran Bahmani
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- london
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Kourosh Asemani
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- shame on Islamic Republic Legislators
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- Kent/UK
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Aryan Bahmani
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- shannon
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Sade Bahmani
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- Shannon
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bahareh Raeissi
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- london
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Arash Sehati
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- Bravo Clare Short. Shame on feminist organisations who are silent
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- London/UK
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Alireza Ismaili
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- Islamic Republic Marriage Laws are child abuse.
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- East London/UK
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Arash T
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- Clare Short has my support on this.
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- Kennington/London/UK
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Kia Atri
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- Another case of barbarism of the Islamic Republic
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- U.K.
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anoush eshghi-pour
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- England, Brighton
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Elly Irani
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- Shame on IR and its supporters
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- Canada
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Roshanak
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- Abolish this medieval law
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- Canada
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Roshanak
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- Abolish this medieval law
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- Canada
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Mahnaz L
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- Why are feminist organisations silent about this injustice to women?
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- London/UK
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Bahram
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- If the West is serious about spreading democracy, they should help Iranians to get rid of the Islamic Republic
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Kamelia
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- well done Clare
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- Cockfosters, London/UK
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Kia
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- Under-age marriage laws is only a small thing that has to be stopped and gotten rid of - above all the Islamic Republic has to be thrown into the dustbin of history and gotten rid of.
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam
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- Canada
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Mitra Hormozi
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- Save the girls in IRan
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- England(Staffordshire)
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Abdol Hamid Sheybani
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- London
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parvin Darabi
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- Most Muslims are child molesters
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- Truckee, CA, USA
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Shahla
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- New York, NY
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Amir Khosrow Sheibany
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- Shadi Nazdikast !!! Shadi Nazdikast !!!
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- Miami, USA
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Fereydon Abdollahyan
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- Another example of the failure of a bankrupted ideology.lets work together to overthrow this dispecable regime
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- West Wickham,Kent
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feraydoon farahy
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- thanks
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- london
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hamidreza zarifnia
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- long live iran
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- uk
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Shahla A
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- feminist organisations rant against Miss world competitions but stay silent on underage marriage
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- N. London
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Farah Sheybani
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- under age marriage is child abuse
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- London
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Mojtaba Abedini
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- Birmingham
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mehdi
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- iran
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Afsaneh Arfahyi
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- London
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Javid Arya
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- London
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Farinaz Aryanfar
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- The Netherlands
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ALI EBRAHIMI
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- U.K
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Joanna Partyka
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- UK
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