The National Organization for Civil Registration of Iran is obliged to issue an identity booklet to every Iranian citizen.

[10][11] According to the decision of the Iran's Cabinet of Ministers on 12 December 1918 during the Qajar era, the regulations for the establishment of the Civil Registry Office in the Ministry of Interior were prepared.

The first Iranian identity booklet (then called sejel (Persian: سجل)) was issued on 25 December 1918 for a newborn girl named "Fatemeh Irani".

[15] From March 1925, according to the law, obtaining identity booklet was required for all Iranian citizens in the areas where the Civil Registry Office was established.

[24] The identity booklet is revoked in two conditions: one is renunciation of Iranian nationality law and the other is death.