Does Iran have a lot of arranged (or semi arranged) marriages?

My family is from Pakistan, and it's not uncommon to hear of an arranged marriage (maybe not TOTALLY, they get to meet and talk).

I was just curious of the traditions in that respect

what do you mean by arranged marriages?

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Your parents choose your wife/husband for you is what I mean by arranged marriages.

Fortunately, I'm not in that boat that my parents chose for me, but I know some people who have had that.

heheh you've got a good point with #4.
Altho S-S pointed out why it's hard to trust your Mullahs with nuclear weapons. Aside from that, it sounds like people on both sides have common interests and can work together.
Thanks for sharing your opinions, Perham.. very interesting.


Especially this bit:

umm yah so you guys hate each other, but together the Sunni Arabs and Shiite Parsians hate Christian USA being in Iraq more. Lovely.


God help us all, Dubya has the US in deep...

It simply demonstrates how easily muslims can be manipulated. If democracy fails, it would be quite easy to just keep them in-fighting and living in chaos and poverty.

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Qur'an:8:39 Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.
Qur'an:8:67 It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land.
Qur'an 8:12 I will terrorize the unbelievers...Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.
Qur'an 9:5 Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.

How much do you feel your views are that of the nation vs that of your area? You're a college student right? Here in the US the opinions held by many college students(especially the vocal ones) are rather different from the country as a whole.


Also if Iran continues with its nuclear plans and Israel bombs your production facilities, what would be the best way for the west to try and reconcile afterwards?

did I say anything about fighting?! do you actually consider "different ideas" as manipulation?

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I wasn't addressing you.

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Qur'an:8:39 Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.
Qur'an:8:67 It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land.
Qur'an 8:12 I will terrorize the unbelievers...Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.
Qur'an 9:5 Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.

no, we don't have such traditions now. maybe in some far villages, but not in mainstream iranians.

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anything that has been asked me(personally) was my own opinion. but when it was asked about the situation, traditions, actual happenings, I didn't answer them from myself. I'm considered as liberal left here. we are 50% of the country. the radical conservatives roughly gains 20% of people's support. the other 30% goes to neutral conservatives that are critic of government actions and agree with us in most discussed issues here. college guys are leaders of people's movements here. we have the same guys in the colleges in the same
ratio that we have in society. we have our mini wars inside colleges.

that would definitely start a bloody war. nothing can be done further if ahmadinejad is in office. there would be no hope then.

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