Can Iranian women pass down their nationality to foreign husbands?
Iranian women who married foreign husbands used to not be able to pass down their citizenship to their kids or husbands. I find it sexist, because a man can pass down his citizenship to his wife and kids, but women cannot. Some other countries in the middle east also have these types of sexist backwards laws, like the Gulf monarchies. Tunisia and Morocco on the other hand, have no issue with a woman giving her husband citizenship.
A few years ago, I remember reading that Iran passed a law where women could finally pass down their citizenship to their kids and husbands. This was great news, as Iran is finally becoming more developed than the rest of the middle east.
But now it seems like that law was ignored, and the government is just enforcing it out of it's own mind? From what Iranians told me, women can only pass down their citizenship to their kids, but not to their husbands.
So what exactly is the reality? Could a foreign husband go to a government office and get Iranian citizenship from his marriage?
In my own country, a woman can give citizenship to her husband. A woman has the same rights as men, and equal citizenship. I always thought it's weird how some countries don't see women as worthy enough to pass on citizenship. It's like only men can be real Iranians, and women are not somehow.