Ahmadinejad Attacks the Tehran Book Fair
April 13, 2007 by Alexander
Ahmadinejad’s government is aiming to limit the country’s most important cultural festival, which is a traditional point of contact with the international community. The grip of state censorship tightens.
Everything perceived to go against “moral order”, “Islamic values”, the interests of the “Islamic Republic of Iran” (such as writing the Arab-Persian Gulf) and anything which encourages “animosity, racism, Zionism, superstition” is banned. But the west is not the only target - just a few days ago, 16 books from Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon were forbidden by Iranian authorities.
