Seyed Mohammad Azin

University of Science and Culture · Law

The tolerant approach toward infertility treatment, has made Iran as one of the main destinations of Muslim infertile couples of other countries. Although benefitting from donated embryos is banned for non-Iranians, IVF, IUI, surrogacy and even gamete donation are accessible. This has made Iran a fertility hub in the region and attracts hundreds of...

It has always been a common legal idea that a physician shouldn’t be liable of patients’ corporal loss made without any fault. Doctor’s liability is rationally restricted by his abilities and therefore, he should not be considered responsible for those injuries made without his fault. But most Shiite jurists reject this belief. They account physici...

Metaphysics of heart is a subject matter as old as philosophy, but less dealt with as an independent study. For our contemporaries- who learn just via experiencing and believe just in what they see with eyes of the head-metaphysics of heart seems to be more like a historical fun. But for those do not restrict human knowledge in experimental science...

Background: Regenerative medicine plays a major role in biomedicine, and given the ever-expanding boundaries of this knowledge, numerous ethical considerations have been raised. Main text: Rapid advancement of regenerative medicine science and technology in Iran, emerged the Iranian National Committee for Ethics in Biomedical Research to develop a...

It is about drawing a thought system and a reasonable legal theory of recovery for damages regarding embryo donation errors.

Any contract in the Iranian legal system contains features that need to be explained in order to better understand the exact terms of agreement. Some such features are related to whether the contract is irrevocable or voidable, gratuitous or with considerations, and may bear upon accountability and suspension, formality or contentment, and so on. I...

Female genital mutilation is an ancient tradition which has been impregnated with myth and religious belief through millenniums. As a vast portion of its victims are Muslims, this study discusses whether there is a real Islamic rout in this tradition. The conclusion demonstrates a huge gap between current prevailing impression and real attitude of...

Abortion usually seems to be an accident, but not in the cases of prior abortion record in mother herself, or her relatives. Here, an ethical question appears: “In the cases in which, the mother is aware of high possibility of fetal abnormality through history of abortion for herself or her close relatives, is there any ethical commitment for mothe...

In the Iranian Civil Code, article 190 and the following articles specify a series of conditions that each party of a contract should possess in order to be able to enter into the contract. The above-mentioned article states that in order for a contract to be valid, both parties must be of age, must be in full possession of their senses, and must h...

Last year, I delivered a lecture in the 8th international congress on quality improvement in clinical laboratories in Tehran, about laboratories’ civil liability and emphasized on the key role of a legal-Islamic rule called “Tasbib”. It seems that to suggest a comprehensive legal system based on Islamic perspective, we also need to apply an other r...