en Fertility & Infertility Editorial Editorial <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 253.123px; top: 458.508px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.06217);">ife is a beautiful thing and it would be doomed without the reproductive capability of</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 485.241px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.06806);">humans. In that, the assisted reproductive techniques (ART) can help infertile couples to</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 511.975px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.06238);">enjoy their lives and fill in the gap. With the birth of Louise Brown, the world celebrated</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 538.708px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0773);">the beginning of a new era &ndash; an era of ART. Thirty years ago, the first Iranian IVF baby</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 565.441px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.08382);">was born in Yazd (on December 28, 1990) (Figure 1). Before reaching this milestone, I</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 592.173px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.09983);">had requested Professor Hammarberg and Professor Trounson, whom I had met at the</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 618.906px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif;">6</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 247.313px; top: 615.709px; font-size: 12.7853px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0889);">th</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 258.13px; top: 615.709px; font-size: 12.7853px; font-family: serif;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 264.418px; top: 618.906px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.08712);">World Congress on Human Reproduction in Tokyo in 1987, to help us establish the</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 645.64px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.05353);">first IVF center in Iran. However, my request was rejected at the time because of political</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 672.373px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.08125);">reasons. However, Professor Safaa Al-Hasani (Figure 2) came to our rescue and helped</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 699.106px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0552);">put up the foundation of the first Iranian IVF center in Yazd, following which a few other</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 725.84px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0859);">centers in other cities of the country were also set up. Because some distorted accounts</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 752.573px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0677);">(1, 2) have published about the history of IVF in Iran, I took it upon myself to present to</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 779.305px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.04641);">you this text in Professor Al-Hasani&rsquo;s own words. In fact, I cannot think of a better person</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 806.038px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.11803);">to recount an impartial version of the events because his contributions have played a</span><br role="presentation" > <span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 236.518px; top: 832.771px; font-size: 18.2648px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02568);">key role in the initiation of IVF in Iran.</span> fertilization, techniques 1 4 http://ijrm.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-229-4&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Abbas Aflatoonian 0000-0002-2896-6136 Yes Research and Clinical Center for Infertility, Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.