October 25-2013
Culture Minister Ali Jannati said Monday his department will take another look at books that censors barred from publication under the Ahmadi-nejad Administration.
“Those books subjected to censorship or denied permission to be published in the past will be reviewed again and new decisions will be made,” Jannati said, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
“Our approach toward freedom of the press and books as well as relaxing the atmosphere for writers and thinkers is different from the past and its results will gradually become apparent,” Jannati said.
Earlier this month Jannati criticized the strict censorship of books under Ahmadi-nejad’s rule.
“I sadly learned that some books were denied permission to be published only on the grounds of personal whim,” the reformist daily Arman quoted Jannati as saying.
“I think if the Qoran was not a divine revelation, when it was handed to the book supervisory board, they would say some words did not comply with public chastity and would deny it permission for publication,” he said.