American International Journal of Social Science

Non-Recognition of Dual Citizenship in Iranian Law: A Compendious Survey of Statutory Law
Mansour Farrokhi

Abstract
Dual citizenship is a social, legal, political and economic phenomenon which results from various factors; it may cause some problems for the person having two or more nationalities. Thus, some authors oppose dual citizenship. However, the acceptance of dual citizenship has strongly risen in the last twenty to thirty years and at the beginning of the 21st Century already a majority of the countries, for which data exists, accepts or at least tolerates dual citizenship. In Iranian law dual citizenship has not been recognized. In the present paper, the Iranian statutory law concerning dual citizenship, including the Constitutional and Civil regulations, will be discussed.

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