By NNN-IRNA
Tehran : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that honouring book creators is glorification of culture, thought and art.
At the 25th Islamic Republic of Iran’s Year Book and the 15th World Award ceremony in which Majlis Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel and Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi were present, Ahmadinejad said that honoring book creators is loving human beings and leading them toward the peak of perfection.
Ahmadinejad continued, “Choosing book of the year is a meeting point between thoughts of thinkers and human beings with the kind hearts and constructive thoughts adding these pens create hope for reform and establishment of justice and promotion of love and kindness among mankind.”
Head of Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution said, “I kiss the hands of writers who write with feeling of love, brotherhood, peace, security, progress, godliness and justice adding that human being is the biggest and most supreme book of God who is a reflection of existing truth.”
Elsewhere in his speech, President Ahmadinejad said, “8-year imposed war against the Islamic Republic of Iran was a war between all world powers and Islamic Iran and it was an evidence of war between the uncultured against the pioneers of civilization and human culture.
In the ceremony, President Ahmadinejad granted commemorating plaques to 61 foreign and domestic authors, translators and editors.