An Iranian woman has requested a divorce from her husband on the grounds that he has not washed for more than a year. "My husband says he does not like water and does not want to take a shower ... He doesn't even wash his face when he wakes up in the morning," Mina, 36, was quoted as saying in court by the state-run Iran newspaper. | Isn't not washing un-islamic? Guess I should check with the staff imam, al-Aska Paul. |
When the couple first married eight years ago her husband was obsessively clean, she said. "He spent hours taking showers three times a day and washed his hands every few minutes," Mina said. | That sounds like a classic obcessive compulsive disorder. |
"But he suddenly changed ... Now nobody, including me, my children and his colleagues, can stand him." Divorce is a notoriously difficult process for women in Iran, who normally have to prove that their husband has neglected them financially or sexually, is a drug addict or physically abusive. |