EghtesadOnline: On October 1, the 12-member Guardians Council, which vets legislation’s consistency with the constitution and Islamic laws, approved a landmark reform bill granting citizenship to children born in marriages between Iranian mothers and foreign fathers.

EghtesadOnline: On Wednesday, Nov. 18, a daughter of an Iranian mother received her identity booklet at the headquarters of Interior Ministry, the first to be issued for a child born out of a marriage between an Iranian mother and a father of a foreign country, thanks to the amendment of the Citizenship Act of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran of Sept. 24, 2018.