Iran rewards father of quintuplets with house ownership
The Iranian government has offered a free apartment to a couple in northeast of the country who welcomed the birth of quintuplets earlier this week.
A Sunday statement by the Ministry of Road and Urban Development said that the father of the quintuplets had received keys and ownership deed of his new apartment in a ceremony held earlier in the day in the city of Gonbad-e Kavoos, where he lives.
The father, identified as Ehsan Eghbali, is a simple construction worker and has two other daughters. His wife, Safoureh Habiblee, 33, gave birth to three boys and two girls on Saturday.
The couple is from Iran’s ethnic Turkmen community. Their new babies weighed between 600 grams to 1 kilogram at birth, according to local hospital officials.
Iran has introduced policies in recent years to encourage child birth among its population, including by offering cheap loans and mortgages to couples.
Childbirth rate in Iran fell to one of its lowest in decades in the year to March 2021 when the government put the fertility rate per woman at 1.6, down 0.2 points compared to the year before that.
Iran’s population is estimated to reach 95.278 million in 2036 considering the current slow growth rate of population.
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