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Iran's president wants more kids
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Ahmadinejad: Have more babies

Iranian president calls on citizens to increase population, says West is threatened by possible baby boom

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a break from his threats against the "Zionist entity", and looked inward – calling upon his nation to fulfill the decree to "be fruitful and multiply".

 

In a meeting Sunday with government ministers and legislators in Tehran, the president said he objected to the traditional norm, by which Iranian families had only two children. 

 

He declared that the country could support an additional 50 million residents, in addition to the 70 million currently residing there.

 

Following the revolution in 1979, and through the Iran-Iraq war in the early eighties, many Iranians discounted family planning and the population grew too quickly. In 1986, the population was growing by 3.2 percent – the fastest rate in the world.

 

The government encouraged families to limit themselves to two children per family - a norm that has continued to the current day.

 

"I disagree with those who say two children are enough," said Ahmadinejad. "Our nation is capacious. It can sustain many more children and allow them to grow here. Iran can sustain as many as 120 million people," he was quoted as saying on the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA).

 

"Western countries have problems, and because their populations are decreasing, they

 


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