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 04 Mar Show your love with 124,000 roses
An Iranian man, Shahin, will rue the day he promised to give his wife 124,000 roses as part of her dowry.
According to an Iranian newspaper, E'temad, the woman, identified only as Hengameh, decided to claim her entire dowry of 124,000 red roses after 10 years of marriage to "punish her very stingy husband".
An Iranian court has now ordered that Shahin’s flat should be seized until he produces all of the roses.
The woman said she was claiming the dowry because he was a "very stingy husband" who would not even pay for a cup of coffee, when they went out.
"Shortly after marriage, I realised that Shahin was very cheap," she told E'temad. "He even refused to pay for my coffee if we went to a cafe or restaurant."
With a single long-stemmed rose costing about US$2 in the Iranian capital, Tehran, the man has to come up with US$248,000 to meet his obligations to his wife.
Under Iranian law, a woman can claim her dowry, or mahr, at any time during a marriage or when getting divorced. The gift becomes the property of the wife to do whatever she likes with. It is required in order for the marriage contract and the marriage itself to be valid.
Shahin told the court he could only afford to give her five roses a day and complained that it was his wife's "billionaire friends who had put such ideas in her head".
But the judge rejected Shahin's pleas and ordered his $64,000 (£33,000) flat to be confiscated until he has bought them all.
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