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Iran Bans English in Primary Schools After Leader's Warning

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei / Reuters
January 8, 2018

DUBAI (Reuters) — 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."

"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.

(Reporting by Dubai newsroom; editing by John Stonestreet)

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