Thus, women who are not born in Iran are penalised

If you're a woman who doesn't have a baby or you have a super hair on your face”, you can't become a teacher in Iran. This, based on the new list of conditions the Education Ministry of Iran has published.

According to the list, “heavy emphasis”, diseases like migraines, head cancer, face, neck, breast, or ovaries are also obstacles to becoming teachers.

Blacklisted are smokers, drug users, and alcoholics.

Such conditions have stirred criticism and even ridicule in social media.

“on the Ministry of Education's medieval list, heavy emphasis and facial hair are considered disease and obstacle to those who want to be employed as teachers. Clear violation of basic human rights” wrote in Titter Iranian journalist Sara Omatica.

New government regulations also prevent people suffering from sexual dysfunction or other sexual diseases, such as AIDS and syphilis, from working in Iranian schools.

Also banned are those with mental problems, including psychosis or depression.

In a post in Titter, Iranian journalist and activist, Omid Memarian, said that under new rules, physicist, cosmologist and world-renowned author Stephen Hawking, who suffers from a form of lateral sclerosis, could not teach in Iran.

Some have named the list of conditions as discrimination, Rel broadcasts.

Human rights activist Ahmad Medad, a former teacher, has said that a teacher's physical and mental conditions have a direct impact on the education process, but that the conditions of the Ministry of Education, according to him, are human rights violations.

Sahindokt Molaverdi, assistant to Iran's president for citizens' rights, has promised to review the list and publish its results.

The rules will apply only to new teachers and they are not behind-the-art.