TEHRAN (Iran News)  Speaking at the 11th gathering of institutes dedicated to the education of Persian language and literature, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has emphasized that the Persian Language, which spans from India to the Balkans and is rooted in an ancient civilization, can play a key role in diplomatic dialogue.

Baqaei described Persian as the language of thought, wisdom, history, and civilization. He said that ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives can also represent the Sa’adi Foundation in promoting this language globally.

The spokesperson highlighted the importance of collaboration among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Sa’adi Foundation, and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. He also called for increased efforts to facilitate the education of the Persian language for non-Persian speakers.

According to Baqaei, the Foreign Ministry has always supported the Sa’adi Foundation in this endeavor by leveraging its networks abroad.

Baqaei described Persian as the language of thought, wisdom, history, and civilization. He said that ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives can also represent the Sa’adi Foundation in promoting this language globally.

The spokesperson highlighted the importance of collaboration among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Sa’adi Foundation, and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. He also called for increased efforts to facilitate the education of the Persian language for non-Persian speakers.

According to Baqaei, the Foreign Ministry has always supported the Sa’adi Foundation in this endeavor by leveraging its networks abroad.

Baqaei described Persian as the language of thought, wisdom, history, and civilization. He said that ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives can also represent the Sa’adi Foundation in promoting this language globally.

The spokesperson highlighted the importance of collaboration among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Sa’adi Foundation, and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. He also called for increased efforts to facilitate the education of the Persian language for non-Persian speakers.

According to Baqaei, the Foreign Ministry has always supported the Sa’adi Foundation in this endeavor by leveraging its networks abroad.

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In a ceremony in Muscat on Saturday, the Iranian cultural attaché office in Oman reopened the Persian language training center in a new building.

The training center had been established under an agreement between the governments of Iran and Oman, but its activities came to halt two years ago.

In comments on the sidelines of the opening ceremony, Iran’s Ambassador to Muscat Mohammad Reza Noori Shahroudi hailed the cultural commonalities between Iran and Oman and expressed delight at the resumption of training courses at the center.

Iran’s cultural attaché Ali Mousavizadeh also took the podium to highlight the close bonds between the two nations, saying the Persian language would contribute to the expansion of cultural diplomacy and help the two nations get acquainted with each other.

Iran and Oman share age-old and close diplomatic, economic, and commercial ties.

Oman’s late monarch, Sultan Qaboos who died in January 2020, played an important role in facilitating the early stages of nuclear talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany), which led to a landmark nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in July 2015.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) – All these attendants have devoted their entire life to the Persian language. Persian language experts including linguists from around Russia have gathered at the fifth Moscow forum of Russian and Iranian teachers of Persian language.

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Noting that the trends and progress of the revolutionary poetry are promising, the leader pointed that there are other poetic flows in Iran for sure, but it is the revolutionary poetry which has been remarkably advanced in terms of content, novelty, innovation.

“Safeguarding the identity of the nation is of significance because a nation that loses its identity will be lost in a handful of foreigners,” Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized.

In another part of their speech, Leader of the Islamic Revolution expressed concern about the Persian language saying: “I’m really worried about the language because it is generally eroding.

Expressing discontent over the Islamic Republic of Iranian Broadcasting (IRIB) activities, the leader of the Islamic Revolution added: “The national media sometimes propagates the unidentified, misconceptions language, and worst of all, promotes foreign terms instead of promoting standard, well-understood, polished Persian language.”

The Supreme Leader described devoting poetry to monotheistic teachings, the virtues of the Ahlulbait, the revolution and different important evens of the country and the world of Islam as enhancing and elevating poetry and added: Depict in your poetry the beautiful gestures by the nation, like the magnificent epic of people’s selfless volunteering in providing relief for the victims of the flood; because this makes your poetry a flag of the nation’s identity.

His Eminence went on to say,“ It is very important to safeguard a nation’s identity because once a nation loses its identity, they melt in the palm of enemies and perish.”

In another part of his speech, Ayatollah Khamenei expressed concerns for the Persian language and asserted,“I am truly concerned about the Persian language, because in the public sphere, Persian language is eroding.”

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution elaborated, “ I am upset with the IRIB for they sometimes, instead of promoting an enhanced form of correct, standard and polished version of the language, promote an identity-less version with faulty expressions and worse—with foreign expressions.”

He further slammed frequent use of foreign words in the media and addressed authorities by saying,” Do not allow the Persian language to be afflicted with erosion and destruction.”

Ayatollah Khamenei also criticized poor and low wordings of some songs broadcast by the IRIB through TV series and held, “The Persian language has been protected by great poets for centuries and the vigorous and eloquent version has been passed on to us; therefore, we should protect the language and do not allow that, out of ignorance and negligence, a naïve songwriter ruin the wordings and then his/her songs be broadcast by IRIB or other governmental and non-governmental media, using public money.”

In this meeting, 29 young and veteran poets read out their poems to the Supreme Leader and the audience.

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