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Rated by Participant: 27EB54E29EB52FB8E09E2FEE411BAD9A6D7A5BE464FCE3D6573F1EE83F26DAD3
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The legal age is 18. Personal Status Law amendments would allow ‘"offices of the Shiite and Sunni endowments" to finalise marriages’ in place of courts. PSL was passed in 1959 by a secularist later overthrown in coordination with CIA. The US invasion drove changes to PSL https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-women-campaigners-condemn-amendments-could-see-children-married https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iraqi-women-lament-costs-u-s-invasion-flna2d11582249 https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/39/1/98/587104
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