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Iran bans English in primary schools after leader's warning

8 January 2018 10:21 (UTC+04:00)
Iran bans English in primary schools after leader's warning

By Trend

Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools, a senior education official said, after the country’s Supreme Leader said early learning of the language opened the way to a Western “cultural invasion”, Reuters reported.

“Teaching English in government and non-government primary schools in the official curriculum is against laws and regulations,” Mehdi Navid-Adham, head of the state-run High Education Council, told state television late on Saturday.

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