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===Iran===
{{Main|Family planning in Iran}}
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After the [[Iran–Iraq War]], [[Iran]] encouraged married couples to produce as many children as possible to replace population lost to the war.<ref>{{cite web | title = 'Get back to your washing machine': Iran's ambitious women | url = http://mondediplo.com/2016/02/02iran | work = Le monde diplomatique | date = 2 February 2016 | access-date = 27 April 2016 | last = Beaugé | first = Florence | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160408082339/http://mondediplo.com/2016/02/02iran | archive-date = 8 April 2016 }}</ref>

Iran succeeded in sharply reducing its birth rate from the late 1980s to 2010.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Abbasi-Shavasi |first1=Mohammad J. |last2=McDonald |first2=Pater |title=National and Provincial-level fertility trends in Iran, 1972-2000 |journal=Working Paper in Demography |date=February 2005 |issue=94 |pages=9–10 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/156615121.pdf |access-date=20 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Iran's declining birth rate alarms country's leaders |date=30 July 2020 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/iran-birth-rate-decline/a-54371973 |access-date=22 June 2022 |website=DW.COM |language=en-GB}}</ref> Mandatory contraceptive courses are required for both males and females before a marriage license can be obtained, and the government emphasized the benefits of smaller families and the use of contraception.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update4ss.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917192303/http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update4ss.htm|url-status=dead|title=Iran's Birth Rate Plummeting at Record Pace|archivedate=17 September 2008}}</ref> This changed in 2012, when a major policy shift back towards increasing birth rates was announced. In 2014, permanent contraception and advertising of birth control were to be outlawed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-to-ban-permanent-contraception-after-islamic-clerics-edict-to-increase-population-9662349.html|title=Iran bans permanent contraception in attempt to increase population|date=11 August 2014|website=independent.co.uk|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829204243/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-to-ban-permanent-contraception-after-islamic-clerics-edict-to-increase-population-9662349.html|archive-date=29 August 2017}}</ref>