NCRI – On May 17, the mullahs’ Majlis (Parliament) repealed a 1935 law which gives all children of an Iranian mother and non-Iranian father, Iranian citizenship.
Consequent to this measure, thousands of Iranian children born in Iran of Iranian mothers will be left without birth certificates and rights.
Millions of Afghanis and Iraqis, during the past 27 years, have married Iranian women. Their children are now ineligible for citizenship, educations, health and other rights.
For many years the mullahs’ regime has misused Afghan and Iraqi refugees to export fundamentalism and terrorism but today they are being forced to leave the country. This is despite the fact that they have Iranian wives.
Mrs. Sravnaz Chitsaz, Chair of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said, “According to Iran’s Civil Law, article 976 clause 1, ‘all residents of Iran except those who have foreign citizenship are considered Iranian.’ That says being Iranian before all, means to live in Iran unless when the person has other documents.”
“According to the third clause of the same law, all people who are borne in Iran from unknown parents, would also be considered Iranian citizens,” Mrs. Chitsaz added and stressed that most importantly “the constitution of this regime warrants that ‘citizenship is the true right of every Iranian and the government cannot deprive anyone of that right except at their own request or when they become citizens of another country.’ So it is not clear why the ruling mullahs in Iran are disqualifying the Iranian women and children who are considered Iranian according to their own laws.”
Mrs. Chitsaz condemned this inhuman decision which causes many families to break up and is in clear violation of women’s and children’s rights and urges Human Rights and also Children’s Rights Organizations to protest and attend the situation.
Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 22, 2006
