title: Cloning: A Review on Bioethics, Legal, Jurisprudence and Regenerative Issues in Iran.
abstract: In recent years, the cloning technology has remarkably developed in Iran, but unfortunately, the required legal framework has not been created to support and protect such developments yet. This legal gap may lead to abuse of scientific researches to obtain illegal benefits and to undermine the intellectual property rights of scientists and researchers. Thus to prevent such consequences, the attempts should be made to create an appropriate legal-ethical system and an approved comprehensive law. In this review we concluded that the right method is guiding and controlling the cloning technology and banning the technique is not always fruitful. Of course, it should be taken into accounts that all are possible if the religion orders human cloning in the view of jurisprudence and is considered as permission. In other words, although the religious order on human cloning can be an absolute permission based on the strong principle of permission, it is not unlikely that in the future, corruption is proved to be real for them, Jurists rule it as secondary sanctity and even as primary one. If it is proved, the phenomenon is considered as example of required affairs based on creation of ethical, social and medical disorders, religious and ethical rulings cannot be as permission for it, and it seems that it is a point that only one case can be a response to it and it needs nothing but time.
authors.affiliation: Legal Office, Vice Chancellor of Management Development Resource Planning, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Seyedeh Leila
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Nabavizadeh
authors.affiliation: Stem Cell and Transgenic Technology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Davood
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mehrabani
authors.affiliation: College of Law, School of Art, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Zabihallah
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Vahedi
authors.affiliation: Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Farzad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Manafi
keywords: Bioethics; Cloning; Iran; Jurisprudence; Legal; Regenerative medicine