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Disabled people in Iran constitute about 10% of the population of the country. That number is approximately equal to 9 million people. Paragraph 9 Principle 3 of the legal code of the Islamic Republic of Iran emphasizes the removal of unfair discrimination and the creation of equitable facilities for all people in material and spiritual contexts. Laws supporting the rights of the disabled have obliged the government to provide the necessary grounds for securing the rights of the disabled and to provide them with necessary support.

In February 2021, the newspaper Hamshahri reported that along with the increase in the price of rehabilitation equipment for the disabled, theft of equipment required by disabled people has also increased and many of these people do not have the ability to buy these equipment.

Disability Laws in Iran
In the year 1383 of the solar calendar, the Islamic Consultative Assembly passed legislation under the title of the Comprehensive Law for the Protection of the Disabled and in 16 legal articles ; 4 years later in the year 1387, the Iranian Parliament approved the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, so that Iran joined this international convention. During the administration of Hassan Rouhani, a bill supporting the rights of the disabled was introduced; this bill, under the title Law on the Protection of the Rights of the Disabled, was approved by parliament in March 2018, and it's implementation was announced by the president in May 2018. Despite this, there are many problems in the route of implementation of these laws that have caused many of of them to be unenforceable.

Military Service for Disabled Individuals in Iran
In Iran, according to the comprehension protection act for the disabled, disabled individuals who fall under the textual conditions of this law are medically exempt from military service. There are reports known to the media and citizens regarding the prevalence of discrimination in employment towards people with medical exemptions in public and private offices. Since there is a lot of spiritual, psychological, and economic pressure on families who have a disabled child, in the past there was also an exemption from military service for the other, healthy child of a family with a disabled child. However, presently, according to Article 6 of the Comprehensive Law for the Protection of the Disabled, only families who have two disabled children can have their healthy child exempt from military service. Individuals who, according to the text of the these laws, have parents with disabilities are exempt from military service.

Problems Faced by the Disabled in Urban Spaces
In most cities in Iran, disabled individuals face various issues. These problems include narrow sidewalks built with the use of inappropriate construction materials, slope gradient, and slippage; the lack of appropriate ramps; the presence of barriers between the sidewalk and the roadway, as well as the absence of a bridge; the improperness of the bridge, as well as the lack of pedestrian crossings and connections between the curb, the sidewalk, and the ditch; and the absence of tactile paving for the blind.

The Iranian Association for the Blind
The Iranian Association for the Blind is a charitable institute in Iran established in December 1993. According to statements made through the website of this association, familiarity of society with the natural rights of citizens with visual impairments and efforts to promote their rights are considered to be some of the most important goals of this association.