This article was first published on the Alborz website on January 9, 2010. In Iran, "temporary marriage," which was originally called sigheh [a renewable contract of marriage for a defined duration] ...

This week, Iran's parliament approved a new amendment to a controversial law in the civil code that allows men to have as many sexual partners as they want – all sanctioned by sharia law under the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Inside the shrine, I struck up a conversation with a 55-year-old woman and asked ...

Iran's interior minister has challenged a social taboo by urging the revival of the ancient Shia practice of temporary marriage to give young people easier legitimate access to sex. Moustafa ...

Amid uncertainty of what the future holds for Iranians as the region is gripped in a regional war that is both deadly and destructive, a police officer in Iran’s Alborz province entered into a ...

On my first day in the Islamic Republic of Iran, all I could think about was my hijab, the Islamic covering which I was required to wear as a matter of law whenever I was in a public space. My ...