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In August 2019, an Indian-based website called The Youth published an article headlined A controversial Bill passed in Iran, it allows men to marry daughters, draws flak from other nations that drew inquiries from many Snopes readers: The Youth failed to inform readers of several salient facts about the article, however, including the following: According to other sources, the issue was actually contrary to the way it was framed in headlines published by Western news outlets such as The Guardian. Marriage between stepparents and stepchildren had not previously been barred under Iranian law, so in February 2013 Iran's Parliament sought to amend the law and passed a bill incorporating such a ban. Iran's Guardian Council overrode that bill, though, so the Parliament then revised the bill to allow such marriages, but only if they received additional levels of authorization and approval, according to Al-Monitor: So, rather than lifting an existing ban and allowing Iranian men to marry their adoptive daughters, the Iranian Parliament attempted to enact a ban on such marriages, which had not previously been barred under the law. Failing that, they passed a bill imposing some restrictions on those marriages: Opposing sides debated the necessity of the bill in the first place, with one side claiming that such marriages were exceedingly rare, and the other asserting the contrary: Although at the time The Guardian article was published in September 2013, the revised bill had been passed by the Iranian Parliament but not yet approved by the Guardian Council, the latter's approval was granted shortly afterwards.
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