At a seminar in Teheran, Iran’s former President, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, urged the Iranian Parliament to pass a legislation to allow  organ transplants  from brain dead  individuals.  He said that Islam does not oppose the transplant of body parts of dead people. He added that the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other senior clerics had issued fatwas or religious decrees approving  the procedure. However, the Iranian Parliament  in 1993 rejected  a law allowing the transplantation of organs from dead people, a procedure  opposed by  some orthodox Shi’ite Muslim Clerics. But the good news  is that the seminar in a closing statement  said that “ the practice should be publicly supported and promoted  by religious leaders to help  educate  the public  to donate organs  for transplant”.