and inheritance”. Guatemala recommended to “continue working so that Iranian women have the right to transmit their nationality to their children”. Iran’s International obligations 6. Iran is not a signatory to the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons or the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Furthermore, Iran is not party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Nonetheless, Iran has international obligations to protect the right to a nationality and protect the rights of stateless persons on the basis of other UN and regional treaties to which it is a party. These include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (see article 24.3), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (see articles. 2.2 and article 3), the Convention of the Rights of the Child (see articles 2, 3, 7 and 8) the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [see article 5(d)(iii)] and the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (see articles 5 and 19). 7. In addition and on the basis of the articles mentioned under the CRC, in 2016, the Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended that Iran take measures to ensure the birth registration of all children, and to “review the provisions of the Act on Determination of the Nationality of Children Born into Marriages of Iranian Women with Men of Foreign Nationality amending the Civil Code, and to ensure that all children who are born to Iranian mothers, including children born out of wedlock, are entitled to Iranian citizenship on the same conditions as children born to Iranian fathers”.3 National Law 8. Iran’s nationality law is primarily based on the principle of jus sanguinis, according to which nationality is based on descent, with additional provisions based on the principle of jus soli, according to which nationality is based on birth on the territory. However, the jus sanguinis provisions, according to which, children born from Iranian fathers obtain Iranian nationality by birth; whereas children born from Iranian mothers can apply for Iranian nationality after they reach the age of 18, are gender discriminatory. The additional jus soli provisions grant Iranian nationality to children born in Iran of unknown parentage and persons born in Iran of foreign parents, one of whom was also born in Iran—although the latter provision is not functional. 9. According to the Iranian Nationality Law Article 976 (2), a child obtains Iranian nationality regardless of where the child is born, if they are born to an Iranian father. Iranian nationality is granted to foundlings and children born in Iran to foreign parents, one of whom was born 3 Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations (2016) CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4. 2