Divorce Iranian Style (Iran Family Court Rooms)

Divorce Iranian Style challenges preconceptions about what life is like for
women in Iran. The most startling thing about the film is simply that it was
made. The filmmakers follow the cases of three women who are attempting to
divorce their husbands. Although Iranian religious law frowns on divorce, a
man is allowed to claim the privilege without needing to show cause, provided
he pays his ex-wife compensation. A woman, however, can only sue for divorce if she can prove that her husband is sterile or mad, or if he agrees to let her out of their marriage contract. In the last case, the compensation becomes the bargaining chip: the man will sometimes give his wife her freedom if he doesn't have to pay.

The women are assertive, demanding, and persistent to a degree that confounds stereotypes of oppression. They challenge the judge, badger the uncooperative clerk for misplaced files, chew out their husbands and their husbands' families.
At one point, the judge tells a little girl (the daughter of the court stenographer
who has been a fixture in the court from the age of two months) that he has a
man picked out for her who's "not like the riffraff that come in here." The girl
has a more radical plan: "I won't marry ever, now that I know what husbands are like."

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[StopPanTurkistLies]

@parsimony1902 Also, this documentary does NOT represent Iranian culture or people, AT ALL. This documentary represents POOR VILLAGERS, that's all.

[StopPanTurkistLies]

@parsimony1902 Do you honestly think this documentary represents Iranian culture or Iran? If so then you are really ignorant about Iran and Iranian people. Iranian culture and Iran is great, don't judge countries based off their governments or propaganda documentaries.

[pigsaresmart]

Zeba was 14, he 36. In civilized, secular countries the name for this is pedophilia.

[pigsaresmart]

I wonder what the lady meant by 'I have complied to the religious duties towards my husband'. As if she had no right over her own body and life. She has not left the house 'without her husbands permission in 30 years'... Even pets have more rights.

[pigsaresmart]

@StopPanTurkistLies But it DOES represent the current so-called legal system of men with beards believing in some fairy tale male superpower serving them to justify to treat women as half a human.

[babak1974100]

i really dont understand the point of discussion, this is a documentary about family court cases , it doesnt matter you are a high class or low class category , when ONLY one party decides to give up the marriege this is exactly what happens, both parties they can react very very different from the culture that they have been raised , the weak women it becomes a Dinasour .

in case any of you are denying the facts showing in this documentary i advise you to attend to one of the courts in iran.

[IranScythia]

@PersoAryanism "Americans are that fucking stupid, they are animals"

I'm Iranian and agree with this statement 100%.

Hohoho!

[PersoAryanism]

@StopPanTurkistLies "This documentary represents POOR VILLAGERS"

I'm Iranian and agree with this statement 100%. Dumb fuck Americans can't tell the difference between different strata's of Iranian society, they think that Iran is a monolith (seriously, Americans are that fucking stupid, they are animals).

[taoistwarrior]

For folks who think I am lying about you can marry a girl as soon as she hits puberty. Go to 23 mins and 30 seconds of the video and SEE for YOURSELF that it is perfectly fine to be married to a 9 year old girl in Islam. If their prophet Mohammad did it. Its all fine. You have to emulate the prophet Mohammad since he is the best example of a human being.

[dontobby89]

the little girl is too cute :D

[Baharanzemestan]

Fuck all akhunds in Iran

[samimaryan]

@StopPanTurkistLies How the rich do it? I mean, the system is the same for everyone isn't it?