Financial Tribune- So far, 4,250 infertile couples have been identified and listed under an infertility treatment plan called Barekat-e-Khanevadeh (Family Blessing), and the treatment process for 1,602 couples has begun or completed, resulting in a total of 125 pregnancies and 40 live births. The infertility treatment program is conducted by Barekat ...

Tehran, August 31, The Iran Project Director ofPopulation and Family Health Office saysthat twelve sex clinics will beestablishedin 12 universities across the country. Following the notification of a new family planning policy by Irans Supreme Leader, ministry of health would establish 12 sex clinics in the country in October this year, Director ...

Tehran, Dec 26, IRNA Population of the Iranians residing Iran has increase to 87 million and over 2 million Iranians are living abroad, head of the countrys Registrars Organization Mohammad Nazemi-Aredikani said here Friday. With this population the Iranians comprise 1% of the world population, ranking 10th among the Asian and 3rd among the Middle ...

Tehran, Oct 23, IRNA - Irans population model can be a good example, particularly for Muslim and regional countries, said Mehmet Hulki Uz, the resident representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Uz made the statement in an exclusive interview with Thursday's edition of 'Iran Daily' and also welcomed the decree of the Leader of Islamic ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Supreme Leader outlines Irans general population policies Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday outlined general policies of the countrys population plans.   Iran urges joint bids to fight extremism Iran has called for closer ...

Tehran, May 20, IRNA Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday outlined general policies of the countrys population plans.   In separate letters to the heads of the three branches of government (legistlative, executive and judicial) as well as that of the Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Khamenei said ...

Iran's parliament is seeking a ban on vasectomies and a tightening of abortion rules as the country moves away from its progressive laws on family planning in an attempt to increase the birthrate. Two decades after Iran initiated an effective birth control programme, including subsidised male sterilisation surgeries and free condom distribution, the ...

Tehran, April 15, IRNA - On Sunday, Iran?s parliament voted in favor of a bill to prevent the declining birth rate in the country. Should the bill become law, any action including but not limited to abortion, sterilization, vasectomy as well as advertisement on lowering offspring will be considered illegal and offenders will be dealt with according ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- In Iran, free condoms and government-backed vasectomies are out, replaced by sermons praising larger families and discussions of even offering gold coins to the families of newborns. Having successfully curbed birth rates for two decades, Iran now is promoting a baby boom to help make up for its graying population. But experts ...

"One flower does not make Spring. More children, a happier life."   That's the message being sent to Iranians in an effort to encourage them to produce more offspring. Colorful billboards bearing the slogan and depicting a happy-looking family have cropped up along major highways in Tehran. The idyllic family of six is shownpedaling together ...

Iran news headlines on Mondayinclude Iran-IAEA nuke talks on May 21; concerns over hiking foodprice in Iran;Pentagon chief remarks overIsraels right of military strike on Iran; Iran's policy of increasing its population and Turkey denial ofIsrael plan of usingits airbase for attacking Iran.   Iran to meet U.N. nuclear watchdog on May 21: reports Iranand ...

Iran has launched a house-to-house healtheducation drive to persuade couples to have more children in a move aimed at engineering a baby boom and more than doubling its population. The health ministry is deploying some 150,000 officers to promote the benefits of marriage and urge single-child couples to expand their families. Medical ...