Miser ordered to buy wife 124,000 roses
A miserly man has been ordered by a court to buy his neglected wife 124,000 red roses.
Etemad newspaper reports that the woman - known only by her first name, Hengameh - decided to claim her mahr, or dowry, after ten years of marriage as a way of punishing her husband's tight grip on the purse-strings.
"Shortly after marriage I realised that Shahin was very cheap. He even refused to pay for my coffee if we went to a cafe or restaurant," she said.
A long-stemmed rose in the Islamic Republic costs a little over £1 - and the order will cost him an estimated £134,000.
Under law mahr, offered by the man to the woman at the time of marriage, can be claimed at any time during married life or divorce proceedings.
Most common offerings are gold coins or property, sometimes up to hundreds of thousands of pounds in value.
Authorities have seized Hengameh's husband's apartment - worth around £32,500 - until he has bought her all 124,000 roses.
The husband denies the accusations of thriftiness, claiming that he can only afford five roses a day, he complained that it was "her billionaire friends who had put such ideas in her head."
A miserly man has been ordered by a court to buy his neglected wife 124,000 red roses.
Etemad newspaper reports that the woman - known only by her first name, Hengameh - decided to claim her mahr, or dowry, after ten years of marriage as a way of punishing her husband's tight grip on the purse-strings.
"Shortly after marriage I realised that Shahin was very cheap. He even refused to pay for my coffee if we went to a cafe or restaurant," she said.
A long-stemmed rose in the Islamic Republic costs a little over £1 - and the order will cost him an estimated £134,000.
Under law mahr, offered by the man to the woman at the time of marriage, can be claimed at any time during married life or divorce proceedings.
Most common offerings are gold coins or property, sometimes up to hundreds of thousands of pounds in value.
Authorities have seized Hengameh's husband's apartment - worth around £32,500 - until he has bought her all 124,000 roses.
The husband denies the accusations of thriftiness, claiming that he can only afford five roses a day, he complained that it was "her billionaire friends who had put such ideas in her head."
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