To understand where Iran is heading, look at what its children
are learning. That's the message at the core of Discrimination
and Intolerance in Iran's Textbooks, a comprehensive new study
that has just been released by Freedom House. The report - which
covers some 95 compulsory textbooks now being taught in Iranian
primary schools - finds that the radical political messages,
gender, ethnic and religious stereotypes, and anti-Western
sentiment contained within these texts "are neither accidental nor
sporadic." Rather, they are "consistent and systematic throughout
the textbooks at the core of the curriculum in Iranian
schools."
The entire study is well worth a read. It can be found
here.
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Books, Iran
