Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30 A senior official in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan has acknowledged the existence of a staggeringly-high number of illiterate people in the province. Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30 A senior official in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan has acknowledged the existence of a staggeringly-high number of illiterate people in the province.
Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, the representative of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in East Azerbaijan, announced that there existed close to half a million illiterate people in the province.
The existence of 470,000 illiterates in the province is extremely shameful, Shabestari told a group of educational officials. His remarks were reported on Thursday by the government-run news agency Fars.
