Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf sent the National AI Development Law to President Masoud Pezeshkian for implementation on 13 September 2026. Its 12 articles and eight provisos create a National AI Organisation, independent and reporting to the president, responsible for the national AI development plan, regulation, evaluation indicators and coordination between state bodies, and housing a strategic studies centre with a laboratory for foundational technologies alongside a centre that evaluates and certifies the security of AI systems. The law requires periodic risk-based assessment of domestic and foreign AI systems, with results published every six months. A National AI Development Fund is to be capitalised at 100,000 billion rial, or 10 trillion toman, over three years, with the Innovation and Prosperity Fund contributing at least 25 percent of its annual resources and the government spending at least 10 percent of telecom operator licence and revenue-share income each year on compute infrastructure, business support and subsidised AI processing.
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