within marriage. With its estimated 1.5 million infertile couples, Iran is the only Muslim
country in which assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) using donor gametes and
embryos have been legitimized by religious authorities and passed into law. This has placed
Iran, a Shia-dominant country, in a unique position vis-à-vis the Sunni Islamic world, where
all forms of gamete donation are strictly prohibited. In this article, we first examine the …