Al-Monitor - A supervisory body affiliated with Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has imposed a sudden ban on "Rahman 1400,"a satirical movie that has achieved extraordinary box office success in the past few weeks. The decision was made after the ministry found the movie in breach of common censorship rulesthat includestrict script-...

MENAFN- Iran has taken a part in Paris Book Fair which kicked off on Friday, with 700 book titles. In line with a plan called 'Grant Program' which has been launched by the Iran Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and calls for book translation and publication, Albania and India expressed their willingness in the first day of the exhibition ...

Tehran, November 17, The Iran Project- The secretary of Irans Fashion and Clothing Regulation Workgroup says the first national festival of fashion and clothing best book of the year will be held in eight sections soon. Speaking to a reporter on Tuesday, Hamid Ghobadi the secretary of Iran's Fashion and Clothing Regulation Workgroup of the Ministry ...

Tehran, October 17, The Iran Project Iran's cultural measures against the presence of the apostate writer Salman Rushdi at the Frankfurt Book Fair continues as independent publishers joined the campaign. While Iran's stand in the fair has been left closed since the beginning of the fair due to official boycott, the cultural measures, assisted by ...

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is neither under media pressure nor under the influence of MPs, asserted Culture Minister Ali Jannati, on Thursday. Addressing a ceremony organized by Iran Cinema Organization on the eve of the National Day of Cinema, at Sadabad Palace in northern Tehran and attended by a huge number of cineastes, Jannati ...

A law on free access to public information will soon be put into effect. At a ceremony on information disclosure and free access code, Hossein Entezami, information and press deputy at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, said the code ascribes citizens as the true owners of information. The law, seen as revolutionary in the domestic ...

An official with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has said that Orly Azoulay, a journalist with Israels Yedioth Ahronoth daily, was in Iran as an American on a tourist visa. Mohammad Mansour further said that the ministry is studying the case to see if the Israeli-US citizen has been granted visa at an Iranian embassy or at the airport....

TEHRAN, Jan. 25 (MNA) Iran's Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance issued call for participation for international film festival entitled Mohammad the Messenger of Peace. An international short film festival entitled Mohammad the Messenger of Peace will be held in Iran offering a prize of $20,000 for the first winner. Iran's deputy of ...

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TEHRAN, Nov. 5 (MNA) The producer of Bear has applied for a screening license at the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance for premiere of the controversial film. In a press release on Sunday, Javad Noruzbeigi said he hopes that his film would receive a green light for premiere from the moderate administration, which was appointed to the ...