Iran's Culture Ministry has ordered the censoring of one of the most famous epic love stories in Persian literature more than eight centuries after it first appeared, the news agency Mehr reported yesterday.
Khosrow and Shirin was written by Nezami Ganjavi in 1177, published in 1180 and has been part of Persian literature ever since.
But after 831 years, the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, an ideological watchdog in charge of issuing permission for books prior to printing, has decided that parts of the book need to be censored.
'After these kind of decisions you feel fed up as far as any cultural work in this country is concerned,' said Fariba Nabati, cultural director of Peydayesh Publications, which publishes the Khosrow and Shirin book.
According to Nabati, after her company had published the book for many years, it decided to change the layout for the eighth edition and sent it to the ministry for approval.
The publisher was shocked when the ministry informed her that parts of the work had to be censored, including phrases such as 'left nothing of the wine while drunk,' 'going somewhere where we can be alone,' and 'holding hands.'
Following the 1979 Islamic revolution, any reference in literature to physical encounters between men and women has been banned as immoral. As consumption of alcohol is forbidden, even symbolic references to wine and drunkenness are forbidden.
Nezami Ganjavi (1141-1209) is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, especially his two love stories Khosrow and Shirin and Layla and Majnoun.
source: Freedom Messenger
Iran's Central Bank has announced the national inflation rate as 16.3 percent, ending a two-month delay in revealing where inflation stands.
Mahmoud Bahmani, the head of Iran's Central Bank, expressed hope that the inflation rate would fall, predicting that the country would move to a single-digit rate in the coming year.
Iran’s inflation rate has gone from 8.8 percent in May of 2010 to 12.8 percent last March. The new report indicates there was a further increase of four percentage points over the past four months.
Since the government began cutting subsidies on energy and food staples such as bread and sugar, the inflation rate has been on a steep rise, climbing a reported six percentage points in the first eight months of the new subsidy regime. Many analysts predict a further rise in the inflation rate due to the cuts to government subsidies.
The government has been sharply criticized for its failure to adequately report economic statistics, with some analysts maintaining that the administration is trying to cover up an economic decline.
Despite criticism from Parliament and the Central Bank, the administration has transferred the responsibility for publishing national economic statistics from the Central Bank to the National Statistics Centre. However, so far the Statistics Centre has failed to release any data on the inflation rate.
source: Radio Zamaneh
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