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Weddings in Iran have long been over-the-top affairs, with families spending thousands of dollars to celebrate a union. But now some couples are splurging on an entirely different sort of nuptial celebration: a divorce party.

Local media outlets and blogs have been abuzz for months about lavish parties, complete with sarcastic invitations and humorous cakes, for couples splitting up. The phenomenon has become so widespread in Tehran and other large cities that one prominent cleric said couples who throw these parties are satanic.

Still, the divorce parties are a sign of an undeniable trend: Divorce in Iran is soaring. Since 2006, the rate of divorce has increased more than one and a half times, to the point where around 20 percent of marriages now end in divorce.

In the first two months of this Iranian calendar year (late March to late May) alone, more than 21,000 divorce cases were logged, according to official statistics.

The rise in the number of couples choosing to split up has angered conservatives in Iran, who see the increase in divorce as an affront to the values of the Islamic Republic.

Last month, Mustafa Pour Mohammadi, the justice minister, who is also a cleric, said that having 14 million divorce cases within the judiciary is not befitting of an Islamic system, according to the Iranian Students News Agency.

Some of the causes for divorce in Iran, like many other countries, include economic problems, adultery, drug addiction or physical abuse. But the increase in the divorce rate points to a more fundamental shift in Iranian society, experts say.

There has been a big growth in individualism in Iran, especially among women. Women are more educated and have increased financial empowerment, said Hamid Reza Jalaipour, a sociologist at Tehran University.

It used to be that a woman would marry and she would just have to get along. Now if shes not happy, shell separate. Its not taboo, he said.

One 41-year-old woman, a chemistry graduate who is head of public relations at a Tehran factory and who has a teenage daughter, said she divorced her husband because he was an abusive drug addict.

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President Obama plainly wants it so much he can almost taste it, so sooner or later hell sign a deal with Iran.

A bad deal.

The reason for Iran to sign any deal is to get an end to US sanctions but Congress, if it feels the deal doesnt do enough to end Tehrans rush to become a nuclear- weapons power, might refuse to repeal the sanctions.

But this week, in a White House leak to a favorite news outlet, The New York Times, we learned that the Treasury Department now claims Obama can make the sanctions disappear without Congress. Huh?

Ed Royce, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Its tough to see a solid agreement [with Iran] when Congress which was critical to putting in the strong sanctions that got negotiations to this point is so clearly sidelined.

Democrats like Reps. Eliot Engel (D-Bronx-Westchester), the committees top Democrat, and Steve Israel (D-LI) are just as critical.

Yet this is far from the first trick the administration has pulled to dodge congressional accountability here.

Consider the timetable set by the worlds six top powers to conclude a deal on Irans nuclear program by Nov. 24.

Neatly nestled after Nov. 4 (the midterm elections) and before January (when the new, almost certainly more Republican, Congress is sworn in), it couldnt be more perfectly timed to sneak a fast one by unruly Capitol Hill.

As a diplomat from one of the six parties involved in the talks told me recently, Itd certainly seem that the deadline was designed with the US political calendar in mind, that is to give Obama more flexibility in making a deal.

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