Iran: 20,000 unregistered children in just one city

At least 20,000 unregistered kids live in the northern city of Mashhad, according to officials in the statistics and census reported. 
The Director General of the Iranian regime’s Department of Citizenry and Foreign Migrants in Khorasan Razavi Province in northeast Iran said, “Currently there are 20,000 kids without birth certificates in Mashhad. All these children are the result of Iranian women marrying foreign nationals, especially Afghans and Iraqis.”
“The main problem is children being born from unofficial marriages between Iranian women with foreign nationals, leaving their kids without any proper documents. They are not covered by the law of having an Iranian mother because their marriages are not official. The children of this group of women, considered as lacking identities, are numbered at around 20,000,” said Mohammad Ajami on Saturday, February 15th in an interview with Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.