Ahmadinejad’s Advice to Young Women

by Liz Colville

President Ahmadinejad of Iran (yes, still there) thinks that the best age for women to marry is 16 to 18, according to a recent report in an Iranian newspaper. Ahmadinejad is attempting to be progressive, showing support for 2004 reforms that raised the legal age a “woman” could marry from 9 to 15. Men, he says, should marry between the ages of 19 and 21. Ahmadinejad is trying to get more young people to vote (“vote”?) in the next election, in 2012, and saying people should marry in their mid- to late teens is, I suppose, really generous of him.