Data from the Statistics Center of Iran show that in the past five years, more than 131,000 girls under the age of 15 have been married, of which more than 7,500 married last summer.
According to a report by the state-run Tejarat News website on Tuesday, March 29, the Statistics Center of Iran has disclosed that since 2017, an average of 30.000 girls under 15 get married annually. The report said 123 boys under 15 also got married in the past five years.
Earlier, the Statistics Center of Iran reported a 10.5 percent increase in the marriage rate of girls aged 10 to 14 in 2020 compared to the previous year.
In November 2021, the state-run ISNA news agency said that The National Statistics Center of Iran announced that 9,753 young girls between 10 and 14 were married in spring 2021.
During the same period, 45,522 girls between 15 and 19 years old were also married.
The latest headlines on child marriages in Iran referred to the painful phenomenon of young child marriage.
In the latest headlines on child marriages, the Department of Registry of Sistan and Baluchestan Province announced it had registered 18 marriages of young girls between 5 and 9 years old since March 2021. (The state-run ROKNA news agency – January 4, 2022)
This statistic is only related to marriages registered with the National Registry, and it is likely that the actual number is higher.
However, in recent months, several reports of child brides committing suicide have been published in Iran, especially in Sistan and Baluchestan province.
Child marriage in Iran is not a cultural issue. It has become a social catastrophe due to the policies of the mullahs’ regime. The Iranian regime has refused to ban or criminalize early marriages. Contrarily, child marriage is encouraged under the mullahs. Rampant poverty –an outcome of the clerical regime’s plunder of the national wealth– further contributes to this misogynous phenomenon.
