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Iran: 2 minutes for reading

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 @ 12:41 UTC

by Hamid Tehrani

Countries:: Iran
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Literature

Razeno says [Fa] that according to statistics each Iranian reads 2 minutes per day. The blogger adds unfortunately our culture is an oral culture, in other words we just chant slogans.

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