President Ahmadinejad Opens 26th Tehran Intl. Book Fair

Tehran, May 1, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday opened the 26th Tehran International Book Fair (May 1- 11). Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Mohammad Hosseini, Head of the exhibition, Ali Esmaeeli, and a number of Majlis deputies, cultural and literary elites and domestic and foreign publishers were accompanying the president during his tour of the fair. A total of 4,145 Iranian and foreign publishers, including 2,545 domestic and 1,600 publishers from 77 countries, have put 445,000 titles of books on display in a 135,000 square meter plot of land./end