Inside Iran’s state-blessed app that lists 13-year-old girls for marriage.
I have written about jihad. I have written about Sharia. I have written about terror, doctrine, lies, and political infiltration. But nothing, absolutely nothing, hits harder for me than this: the Islamic Republic of Iran has launched a state-blessed matchmaking platform that advertises thirteen-year-old girls for marriage.
According to the Islamic Republic’s own figures, 36,000 Iranian girls aged 10 to 14 were officially married from March 2021 to March 2022. That is just the paperwork. Iran’s own former Deputy Human Rights Minister admitted the real number is two to three times higher because many “marriages” are never registered.
And that’s before we even speak of the girls who became mothers. In 2021 alone, 1,349 girls under 15 gave birth. Babies having babies.
This isn’t “culture or tradition.” It is Islam as written, not Islam “misinterpreted.” Qur’an 4:3 laid the blueprint centuries ago: girls under guardianship are part of the marriage pool as soon as a man offers a fair price for her. In this worldview, a girl is an asset moving from one male authority to the next, father to husband, with no concept of childhood in between.
The Islamic Republic didn’t invent this.
The platform is called Adam & Hawa (Adam & Eve). It is not a rogue website. It is not some underground network. It is:
- registered legally
- promoted on state television
- aligned with the Supreme Leader’s “Family Policies.”
- owned by a company tied to a powerful IRGC-affiliated charity
- run by the son of a former IRGC intelligence commander
This is a state-run pipeline for selling little girls into marriage under the protection of Sharia.
The platform asks men what kind of girl they want. --->READ MORE HERE
Forced to marry at 12 years old, sources told IranWire her husband began physically and emotionally abusing her after she refused to become pregnant a second time.
A victim of child marriage may be executed by the Islamic Regime after authorities claim she played a role in the death of her abusive husband in May 2018, according to human rights activists and international media reports.
Goli Kouhkan, now 25, will be executed unless she can raise 10bn tomans (approximately NIS 342,000) in blood money to the family of her deceased husband, whom she was forced to marry at 12 years old.
Kouhkan had called for help from a relative when she witnessed her husband beating her five-year-old son, which led to a fight and his death.
Held on death row in Gorgan central prison for the last seven years, since her husband’s death when she was only 18, the case has been widely condemned by human rights groups.
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, from the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) organization, shared, “Kouhkan belongs to an ethnic minority, she’s a woman, and she is poor. She is probably the absolute weakest in Iranian society…Her sentence is symbolic of Iranian authorities’ use of the death penalty to create fear, and the discriminatory laws and societal factors that have led to this situation.”
It was reported that Koukhan was forced to sign a confession, despite being illiterate, by authorities without a lawyer present.
Goli Kouhkan’s forced marriage as a 12-year-old
Not even a teenager, Kouhkan was made to marry her cousin and gave birth to a son a year later, according to the Guardian.
Born to a member of the ethnic minority group Baluch, which makes up less than 2% of Iran’s population, she has no identity papers.
Ziba Baktyari, a member of the women’s advocacy organization Brashm, told the Guardian, “Kouhkan is not one single case…Baluch women, and women generally, are targeted by the regime. No one knows about them, no one cares about them, and their voices are not heard. Women don’t have rights; they have to obey their husbands and are kept away from school. Families marry off girls because of poverty; they cannot provide for them.” --->READ MORE HERE
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