Legal Guarantees of Citizenship Education within the Framework of the Iranian Legal System

Citizenship rights and education of its basics and various dimensions is one of the necessities of today's societies. This is because today's societies often consider citizenship rights as an important dimension in politics. In this regard, the present study seeks to examine the legal guarantees of citizenship education within the framework of the Iranian legal system.

The method of the present research is descriptive-analytical which has collected the materials in the form of documents and libraries and has analyzed them in an argumentative and inferential manner.

Citizenship rights education has clear principles and dimensions in Iranian domestic law. Hence, it is a guarantee for its expansion. Education in schools, higher education centers and mass media is a basic necessity for the development of citizenship rights within the framework of the Iranian legal system.

Focusing on justice, individual and social freedom, the right to free education, civil, political, economic and social rights in the framework of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, are the guarantors for the realization of civil rights education. Therefore, civil society and non-governmental organizations should have a more effective position in civil rights education, and even in religious ways and in the form of charitable institutions; they can promote citizenship rights in theoretical and practical dimensions. In-service education in schools and universities is a basic necessity for guaranteeing citizenship rights and for the emergence of citizenship rights stemming from the Constitution and the Charter of Citizenship Rights.