IRNA - Irans Guardian Council, the legislative vetting body, ratified on Wednesday a government bill that allows children born to Iranian mothers and foreign fathers to obtain Iranian citizenship. Guardian Council Spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodai tweeted on Wednesday that the legislative vetting body ratified a bill that helps children born to Iranian ...

Al-Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: Javad is a 30-year-old architect and photographer in Iran. Born to an Iranian mother and an Afghan father in Iran, he has not yet been granted Iranian citizenship due to the countrys nationality law, which only gives children of Iranian fathers automatic citizenship. As a result, Javad has faced plenty of hurdles and ...

IRNA Iran's Foreign Ministry has announced its firm support for the parliament bill that calls for passing nationality from Iranian mothers to their children, the spokesman for the ministry Abbas Mousavi said on Monday. Rejecting reports on alleged opposition of Iran's Foreign Ministry to a bill that allows granting the country's citizenship to ...

Iran Front Page - Iranian lawmakers have unanimously passed a bill presented by the government which allows children with an Iranian mother and a non-Iranian father to ask for the countrys citizenship. During a parliamentary session on Sunday, May 12, 188 lawmakers voted in favour of the bill which had been presented to the Parliament by the government ...

IRNA- The newly approved bill on giving Iranian nationality to a child born to an Iranian mother and foreign father awaits further debate and vote by parliament in a bid to turn into national law. A parliamentary commission has approved a government bill that grants Iranian nationality to the children of marriages between Iranian women and foreign ...

IFP - An Iranian lawmaker says granting Iranian nationality to the children born to an Iranian mother and a non-Iranian father not only is a must for population management, but can also decrease insecurity in the country. In a Farsi interview with ICANA, the vice-chairman of the Iranian Parliaments Judiciary Commission, Yahya Kamalipour,...