In a workshop studying the trend of divorce in the central Iranian city of Yazd on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, Shahindokht Molaverdi said, “Divorce is the cause of many social illnesses and threatens Iranian families.”
Molaverdi, deputy presidential on Women and Family Affairs pointed out the role of economic factors as the main reason for the soaring figures on divorce in Iran in recent years.
(Official IRNA news agency, November 11, 2015)