Iran

Iran backs away from temporary marriages

LONDON, June 9 (IranMania) – The hard-line government is backing away from a plan to promote the tradition of temporary marriage in Iran as a way to avoid extramarital sex, an official spokesman said, The Associated Press (AP) reported.

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Italian FM: Nuclear armed Iran is ‘unacceptable’

Rome, (The Associated Press) The possibility of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is “unacceptable” and Italy will stand by the international community if more sanctions against Tehran are proposed, the foreign minister said Thursday.

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Portraits of Shiite resistance

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah was born in 1960 in a poor suburb of Beirut. In 1975, his family moved back to its ancestral home in the southern Lebanese village of Bassouriyeh. As a young man, Sheikh Nasrallah studied in religious schools and joined the Amal Movement, a Shiite resistance …

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