The ironic case of the female footballer who was not allowed by her husband to leave the country to participate in the Asian Championship Football games, revived talks about the law on women’s passports.
Although the law permits women to get married and have a family at the age of 13 and they are considered mentally, politically, and socially mature enough to take part in the elections at the age of 18, when it comes to their passports, the lawmakers suddenly decide that women must get a letter from their fathers… When you refer to 10+Police to get your passport, you will see an announcement according to which married women at any age need the notarized permission of their husbands to leave the country.
(State-run akhbar-rooz.com, September 23, 2015)