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Have more children, Iranians urged Posted on ยป Friday, April 30, 2010 TEHRAN: Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mocked Iran's award-winning family planning policy yesterday, insisting Iranians need to have more children. In a meeting with town council members, Ahmadinejad warned that 30 years from now Iran will be stuck with an ageing population like in the West and the situation will be "dangerous." "Westerners said 40 years ago 'let us control the population'... now look at them. Their population is old and ageing," Ahmadinejad said. "Some people turned up in our country and blindly said let us do what they are doing and said that two children are enough and also passed a law concerning this." He was referring to a 1993 family planning law passed to control population growth in Iran after the baby boom years which followed the 1979 Islamic revolution, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged Iranians to have more children. Iran's population grew at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent for more than a decade from around 36 million around the time of the revolution. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
