Victory for Iran’s Women as Breakthrough Citizenship Law Is Passed
Pedestrians look out across the city skyline as they walk along the Tabiat bridge in Tehran, Iran.
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Iran will for the first time grant citizenship to children born to an Iranian mother and foreign father after a long-awaited bill was signed into law by the powerful Guardian Council in a significant victory for women’s rights.
The law was passed by parliament with an overwhelming majority in May, and ratified on Wednesday by the panel of senior clerics and judges, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported, citing council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaee.