🇮🇷Iran

Digital ID · Goal 16.9

Digital ID in Iran

Program

Smart national card

Status

Not confirmed

National ID card

ID card compulsory

Biometrics

Not confirmed

Issuance of the smart card began in 2015 and stalled because of sanctions-related shortages. Citizens aged 15 and older must apply. Expired cards were extended to 20 March 2027. The card was planned to replace bank debit cards from August 2023. No official source was reached.

• Wikipedia — Iranian identity card (secondary; no official source reached) ↗

Digital money · Goal 8.10

Central bank digital currency

Status

Pilot

Name

Digital rial

The pilot started on 12 September 2022 with two stores and limited users on a Hyperledger Fabric platform. In November 2024 the governor said a launch for everyone was planned. The tracker says it is unclear whether the central bank can legally launch it publicly.

• Human Rights Foundation CBDC Tracker — Iran ↗

UN and WHO

How Iran has voted

WHO

Rejected the 2024 rule changes

Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)

Abstained

Migration compact (Dec 2018)

Voted yes

Paris climate deal

Signed, not ratified

SDG Index 2026

68.8 · rank 89 of 169

Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)

0

Rejected 2024 IHR amendments in March 2026. Abstained on Pandemic Agreement; Paris Agreement signatory, not ratified.

• UN Digital Library — migration compact vote ↗
• WHO — amended health regulations enter into force ↗
• SDSN — SDG Index 2026 rankings ↗
• World Bank — Carbon Pricing Dashboard ↗
• adr-docs.karlerss.com ↗
• twn.my ↗
• jamesroguski.substack.com ↗
• en.wikipedia.org ↗

Sovereignty score

How the +1 adds up

• +1Rejected the WHO's 2024 health-rule changes source ↗
• +1Abstained on the WHO Pandemic Agreement (May 2025) source ↗
• -1Running a CBDC pilot source ↗

Points come only from public, sourced actions we track, scored the same way for every country. It isn't a grade of a whole government. How scoring works →