Isn´t there any way that they could get married if she and her family returned from Afghanistan? I am completely ignorant about the social rules in Iran. Does anyone here knows anything about these rules? Isn´t there any possibility at all for an Iranian man to marry an Afghan woman?
shareI was also wondering about this situation, as well. I know some Afghans have arranged marriages, so there could be a chance a husband was already picked out for Baran.
shareI see what you mean, but could they marry if there was no husband already picked out for her?
shareYes in Iran a man and woman can get married to each other even if their parents don't approve. They just have to go to a "Mahzar" (registration office) and have their marriage registered in the presence of 1 or 2 witnesses.
shareThank you for your answer Peykan, but could they get married even if she was an afghan refugee?
shareYes. Socially it would probably be looked down upon but it would be legal. If a Afghan male refugee who is not a citizen of Iran marries an Iranian female though it is not legal and the husband would be deported!
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Yes, it is legal for him to marry her. She's also very young so perhaps a husband wasn't chosen for her yet. There's also the possibility that even if a husband was chosen, Baran's parents might prefer Lateef because he is 'financially more secure' since he is allowed to work in Iran and she can stay with him without worrying about getting deported etc.
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Although Baran may be close to marrying age, I don't think Lateef was. Usually the men have to be more established to be married. It seems more likely that Baran would be married to someone in her tribe back home in Afghanistan to help secure her family's social standing in her community. It'd probably be more beneficial for her in the long run than marrying a teenage laborer with no ID card in Iran.
I think the fact that Lateef never even mentioned his interest in her to Baran's father Najaf or uncle Soltan shows how impossible the idea of marriage between the two must have been.
No two persons ever watch the same movie.share
There is a good chance she would be killed by her family to protect their honor however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing
Honor Killing in Iran -- Father Stones 14 Year Old Daughter To Death
http://www.savedelara.com/Samieh+Stoning.html
Iran - Honor killing claims life of 17-year-old girl
http://www.stopfundamentalism.com/index.php?option=com_content&tas k=view&id=1000&Itemid=71
Tehran - Forty-five young women have been murdered in so-called "honour killings" in Iran's majority ethnic Arab southwestern province of Khuzestan in a two-month period this year, press reports said.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1436398,00.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0212_020212_honorkilli ng.html
http://www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/13/8652
http://www.amews.org/review/reviewarticles/mojabfinal.htm
No, such thing would not happen among those people. How do i know? experience.
shareAs far as I know, honor killings do happen sometimes, but
1-They're not as common as people think they are. They supposedly happen in my country (but here they are called "crimes of passion") but I've never actually known a family that did it.
2-Even in countries where they happen, a big amount of the population disapproves them, and another big amount would only kill a woman if she did something big like cheating on her husband. The ones that kill the girl just because why not are a minority.
3-Please, is there a real reason Baran's family would kill her? It seems to me that you just come with something to talk bad about Iranians, Afghans and Muslims in general.
Wow, I'm replying to a 6 year old post.