10 January 2007: A groom who didn't say "no"

Following our story yesterday about a bride who jokingly said "no" to the all-important question, comes a story of an Iranian man who regrets not having said "no".

He has now filed for divorce, on the grounds that his wife used to be a man.

The man told the court he had learned only after the marriage that his wife, Mina, was a transsexual who had had a sex change operation. He told the court he had tried to "cope with it" in the four years they had been married, but now Mina was making demands for a dowry worth more than $4,000, so he had sought to annul their marriage.