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Iran Seeks to Spark Baby Boom
(Independent-UK) Alistair Dawber - Some 150,000 Iranian health officials have been deployed door-to-door to persuade couples to have more children and single people to get married. Iran's population currently stands at approximately 75 million. Last year, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered an end to the $15 billion national family planning budget and called for the population to double from 75 million to 150 million. The average age at which men get married is 40, and is 35 for women.