In a speech to a closing ceremony of a 23^rd edition of Tehran International Book Fair, the President placed a premium on position of cultural affairs and urged for a promotion of sublime, humane cultural standards.

 

"Culture is the breathing space of human soul. Human soul dies in absence of due culture the same manner human body dies in absence of air," the President reckoned.

 

He said only nations survived which expended much of their efforts in generation of thought, knowledge and sublime social norms.

 

President Ahmadinejad hailed the Iranian nation as flag bearer of sublime culture in history, adding that the nation is featured with a cultural and human side so that in a seven thousand year record of the nation, there has not been even one single token of idolatry or massive moral indecency.

 

The President said perfect religious thought have got linked to the Iranian nation unlike several glitches including a breakout of a massive deviation in Islamic rulers which triggered a rise to Bedouin Arab fanaticism and violence this time in the veneer of monotheism and Islamic thought that clogged the path of humanity as well as persistent onslaughts from outside which were going to break apart the identity and authenticity of the nation.

 

The President then took stock of Tehran book fair event, saying that unlike an expansion of communication systems and networks, books remain to be the most effective, sincere and sustainable vehicle for transfer of culture, intellect, science and literature.

 

"While communication networks have intended to every household, the book fair has been witnessing to a larger number of visitors every year," the President said, adding that books turn a deserted ambience of human being into a spiritually-filled one.

 

"Book helps intellect to survive and builds the best link between thoughts, hearts and cultures," the President opined.

 

The President said given a poll is administered to people the world over on whether they are satisfied with their living conditions or the political relations governing the globe, no doubt, an absolute majority of them would be negative on account of a consensus idea that the current cultural ambience of the world is not satisfactory so that all problems of the human community stem from a set of lingering intellectual and cultural deviations.

 

President Ahmadinejad said humanism and liberalism at all levels are informed by a theory of battle for survival, adding that under the theory, pillage of others' resources is revered and those are rightful who are dominant. "On the same footing, they established several economic organizations which sucks the blood of nations. They have simply occupied other countries through their international and security mechanism and at the same time honor themselves with a peace prize," the President lamented.

 

President Ahmadinejad noted that diplomatic and economic relations of the world would not undergo a change for better unless several intellectual and cultural deviations are set right.

 

The President then enquired who can and must set right the current cultural bearing of the world, saying in response that definitely, a nation can fulfill the m9ission which enjoys rich cultural assets and has the ability to cater to human needs by use of those assets.

 

"A review of nations shows that a nation can bear the flag of modification of culture in the world which has abrogated slavery 2,500 years earlier and has promoted freedom of thought and religion throughout the then Great Iran," the President hailed, in reference to the Iranian nation.

 

The chief executive reckoned that a nation can cater to contemporary needs of humanity which has reared such eminent personalities as Avicenna, Razes and Abu Rayhan Biruni. "Clearly it behooves on the Iranian nation to take on the great undertaking," he said, adding however that the idea does not necessarily refute any role for other nations and that the cultural modification mission must be fulfilled through a unanimous, continuous management of all immaculate human beings.

 

The President the Iranian nation was expected to fulfill its cultural responsibility without being scared by a slew of impediments in the path, adding that the nation has sufficient capacity to do the job.

 

The chief executive then quoted views of Ferdowsi, the renowned Persian epics writer in arguing that human beings enjoy such capacities that they could overcome any encumbrances.

 

"Nowadays, we have an undertaking to take on namely to promote pure Islamic ands human culture. The mission primarily lies on shoulders of authors and publishers," the President said.

 

The President urged the publishing corps to exercise an international attitude since any event or incident to take place inside Iran reverberates across the world. "Nowadays, Iran has tuned into a beacon of hope for human being and for the same reason, the world's attention has concentrated on Iran's developments," the President appreciated.

 

He recommended the Iranian publishers prime for million-strong editions and a massive transfer of Islamic and Iranian thought overseas. In the same regard, the President urged the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to establish an ad hoc office for production and distinction in an international stage.

 

In another regard, President Ahmadinejad said God created human and assigned him/her to prepare a prosperous life for himself/herself and to assist human being in the assignment, He dispatched his messengers to take hand of human being and lead him/her to perfection and genuine prosperity.

 

The President regretted that few lived up to message of Abraham (PBUH) and no whole nation took responsibility for promotion of the message, adding that the same fate befell the message of Moses and Jesus as well to the extent that their mission failed to commence a global human movement towards perfection "until the Last Messenger (Hazrat Muhammad) was appointed."

 

The President went on to say that the monotheist and civilization maker Iranian nation accommodated the message of the Last messenger and since the time, the perfect school of thought has been accorded the opportunity to spread and get momentum.

 

The President then paid tribute to renowned poet Ferdowsi, whose millennium was days around, saying that the epic writer was a reviver of monotheist identity in Iran. "What Ferdowsi did never confined to writing poems in reviving Islam, rather he recovered and represented a monotheistic and justice loving identity of the Iranian nation as well as its inherited mission," the President appreciated.

 

He said Ferdowsi is not confined to a specific land or race and that the poet has served human race and community as a whole. "It is for good reason that they call him a sage, time-conscious man, and slick historian who was also a reformer par excellence," the President said.

 

"Ferdowsi drew a distinctive boundary between Bedouin Arab's fanaticism and perfect school of Islam. Given his profound understanding about human going through history was not offered in a book, it would not have survived," the President reckoned.

 

The President handed citations to top publishers of the past calendar Iranian year following his speech.