According to the reports, the traditional Iranian song duo of Ali and Mohammad Saeidi was given a bronze medal for their single “Youth” composed by Hamid Lali. Santur player Amir-Hossein Moallem also contributed to the piece.

Ali and Mohammad Saeidi both were born on October 30, 1981 in Isfahan and they are both students of maestros Mohammad Ali Kianinejadm Mohammad Taghi Saeidi and Fazlollah Shahzamani and they are twins singers in Iran.

These brothers have recently cooperated with maestro Ali Rahbari in the project named “Persian Nightingales” which had been ordered by Naxos International Company.

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Ayatollah Khamenei issued the warning at a meeting on Wednesday with a group of young scientifically elite in Tehran.

“A significant part of the soft war, which is being and has always been waged by colonialists,…is to render a nation — either our nation or any other talented nation — ignorant and indifferent toward its talents or make it (the nation) face a situation in which it denies those talents itself,” the Leader said.

“When a nation is dominated by ignorance of its own capabilities, it becomes easy [for the colonialists] to pillage that nation. Ignorance is a prelude to plunder…Ignorance and plunder go hand in hand,” Ayatollah Khamenei added.

Referring to the Holy Qur’an, the Leader said, “God warns in the heavenly book that the enemy wants to render you ignorant of your weapons and possessions in order to attack you easily. This is significant today given the pressure and the hype [against Iran] in the world over the issue of drones and missiles.”

Ayatollah Khamenei further hailed the high levels of intelligence and genius in Iran and said, “When it comes to mental talents, our country stands above average in the world. It is not a mere claim. It has been proven and is certain, which means our country — or our nation — is potentially a genius.”

“Genius is a divine blessing, a blessing from God that should be thanked. The first thing that comes to your mind should be for you to express gratitude,” the Leader told the participants.

“What makes a genius, besides mental talents and mental capacities, is being grateful for this reality and blessing,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

He said while authorities are required to fulfill their duties vis-à-vis the country’s scientific community, the young elite should likewise feel responsible toward the homeland’s affairs, accept certain “inevitable hardships” while fighting to overcome the obstacles, and not allow instances of unkindness in some institutions to prevent them from making efforts and moving forward.

The Leader further praised the progress being made in different scientific sectors and said, “Today, important scientific projects are being implemented in the country, which are mainly part of the scientific branches created by others, but in addition to all this, unknown rules of the nature should be discovered on the back of creativity and innovations should be made in generating science.”

Ayatollah Khamenei enumerated a number of the issues facing the country, including the problems facing water resources, environment, rural life, the banking or financial system, and production, as well as social deficiencies. He said, however, that “scientific solutions could be found for all the country’s problems.”

The Leader further urged the elite to pay attention to the planned future for Iran, reminding them of his remarks a few years ago about the need for the country to turn into a frontrunner in the field of science on the global stage.

“We must move in such a way that at a reasonable time in future, Iran will become a source of science in the world and everyone will have to learn Persian to have access to the latest scientific findings,” he added.

Ayatollah Khamenei called artificial intelligence an important and “future-making” matter and emphasized, “This issue has a role in managing the future of the world and we must act in such a way that Iran will be among the world’s top 10 leading countries in [the area of] artificial intelligence.”

The Leader also raised the alarm at certain attempts at dismaying the scientific elite of the country’s future and provoking them to leave their homeland.

Promoting the immigration-first policy and encouraging young elite at universities to leave their homeland “is explicitly a betrayal of the country and enmity with it,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

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The global youth literacy rate is estimated at 91 percent, he further stated, IRNA reported on Saturday.

In the age group of 15 years and above, the average literacy rate is 86 percent in the world and in Iran, Mohammadzadeh noted.

Literacy rate at 96.6%

The rate of literacy among Iranians between 10-49 years has reached 96.6 percent, Mohammadzadeh stated in January.

Before the [1979] Islamic revolution, according to a census conducted in 1976, over 51 percent of the people were illiterate, he said, adding, over the past four decades, in the Iranian calendar year 1395 (March 2016-March 2017), the average literacy rate in the age group of 10 to 49 years has reached 94.7 percent.

Toward illiteracy eradication

Some 50 percent of the activities of the Literacy Movement Organization are focused on literacy empowerment so that there is no return to illiteracy.

The literacy gap between men and women has declined from 26 percent before the 1979 Islamic Revolution to 2.8 percent, Mohammadzadeh stated in August 2020.

The difference in literacy rate between urban and rural areas has decreased from 34.9 percent in 1976 to about 12 percent in 2019, which demonstrates a significant rise in the literacy rate of rural areas.

According to the censuses conducted between 1976 and 2016, the literacy rate of urban areas has increased from 65.5 percent to 99.8 percent. At the same time, the literacy rate in rural areas has increased from 30.5 percent to 78.5 percent.

The allocation of about 80 percent of literacy activities to girls and women, especially in rural areas, has led to a faster increase in the female literacy index.

According to a census conducted in the Iranian calendar year 1395 (March 2016-March 2017), there are 2.6 million illiterates in the age group of 10 to 49 in the country, of whom 360,000 are foreign nationals.

The Organization plans to educate more than 30,000 illiterate foreign nationals residing in the country, Mohammadzadeh said in December 2020.

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