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Marry or be fired!

A top-down approach to creating that basic unit of culture making: the family

A major Iranian state-owned company has told its single employees to get married by September or face losing their jobs, the press reported on Tuesday. β€œOne of the economic entities in the south of the country has asked its single employees to start creating a family,” the hard-line Kayhan daily reported


from β€œMarry or be fired, Iranian state firm warns”, AFP - Mail & Guardian (South Africa), 10 June 2008

Jul 16, 2008, updated Mar 31, 2025