The newspaper "Daily Telegraph" published a report entitled " Iran forbids parents to choose Western names for their children." 

The newspaper said that Iran had prevented parents from choosing "non-Islamic" and "Western" names for their children, in a move aimed at enshrining religious and national identity. 

The report quoted the interior minister as saying that the banned names include some that prevailed before the Islamic revolution in Iran, "as well as the names that promote Western civilization, including Jikardo and Vanuska."




He added that newborns should not have names that remind people of the Shah's regime. 

According to the report, the Minister of the Interior confirmed that "from now there will be no place for names of fugitive or non-Islamic," stressing the need to defend the national and religious identity of the country.