By bne Tehran bureau Iran’s Islamic Propaganda Organisation has launched a new initiative to support grassroots birth activists and facilitate marriages as births plummet, a senior official said on August 14, Salamat news reported. The programme comes as Iran faces a sharp decline in marriage and birth rates, which has fallen from 6.5 births per woman in the 1980s to just 1.06 in 2024, well below the replacement level of 2.1. The announcement follows new shocking data that says that more than 1,000 abortions are occurring across Iran per day. Implemented through a new online platform, the init…

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