Tehran, YJC. Jannati has says the Culture Ministry no more regards previously banned writers as ineligible to write new books.
Culture Minister Ali Jannati
who was speaking to reporters in the sidelines of the mourning ceremony of Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s late mother said "There are no more banned
authors. There were many whose books would not get published because of their
very selves. But now we read the books and then publish them. We no more regard
authors as banned. We see the book, not the person who wrote it.”
Jannati further pointed to
the closure of the Association of Journalists and said "The core of what is
there about the Association of Journalists has to do with the Labor Ministry
and it is something about guilds. Its closure is also due to the Intelligence
Ministry’s file. We believe that with the new approach adopted by the Labor,
Intelligence, and Culture ministries an atmosphere is prevailing now under
which we are expecting soon to see the reopening of the association.”