Shahriar Zangeneh

Kambiz

Thank you for the Jalaldin Farsi exception. I’m familiar with his bio including the cold blooded murder of a villager that he has committed. You might want to add to your list of exceptions the current head of the Judiciary and a host of other IRI apparatchiks who were born outside Iran and some to non-Iranian parents .   

FYI, under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 regardless of where the actual birthing takes place any child born to a U.S. citizen parent automatically becomes a U.S. citizen.  

Ali Larijani was born in Iraq and he could be President

NEXT FALSE RUMOR PLEASE!

FYI/Islamic Republic:millions of Afghani refugees lie forgotten

//iranian.com/main/news/2008/11/01/islamic-republic-millions-afghani-refugees-lie-forgotten-world

Cyrus’ mother is a Tajik, and his father is originally from northern Afghanistan. They met in Iran as refugees and settled down in Yazd, where Cyrus was born. Although it is the country of his birth, Cyrus is not a citizen of Iran. The 19-year-old has been working at the hotel for several months now, but illegally: officially designated an Afghani refugee, he is only allowed to work as a manual laborer, far from mainstream Iranian society. “I cannot go to university, I cannot buy a house...

I hate to disappoint you BUT there was an exception

The case of Jalaledin Farsi (born to Afghan parents in Afghanistan)) who was a presidential candidate in the first presidential election of the IRI. He was only disquaified after it was shown that he was born outside Iran, though he carried Iranian passport. Nonetheless this didn't stop him from becoming a memeber of Majles!

In other words his Afghan parantage didn't disqulify him from running for the office of the president. It was his place of birth. Not too different from the US laws!
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalaleddin_Farsi

Heaven forbid Lance

I’ve not forgotten. In an effort to show how absurd, cruel and out of date IRI is I chose to highlight this particular scenario where their usual lame excuse of religion, cultural or even linguistic differences cannot be used. By mistake the intensive adverb “even” was left out before “the children born to Iranian mothers and Afghan fathers…”.

Shahriar, Don't forget the rest of us!

It's not just the children of Afghan fathers and Iranian mothers that are denied Iranian citizenship.  Any child of an Iranian mother and a foreign father are denied this basic right.  I know because my mother is Iranian and my father is American.  Iran and its leaders treat us all like garbage because it has no regard whatsoever for Iranian women.  Those terrible women who have the audacity to marry a man who is not Iranian must be punished, and what better way than to hurt the ones they love most, their children.