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Academy of Persian Language and Literature - Definition and Overview

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Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی in Persian) is a governmental body presiding the use of the Persian language in Iran. The Academy's main activity has been creating and approving official Persian equivalents for the foreign general or technical terms. It has also created an official orthography of the Persian language, titled Dastoor-e Khatt-e Faarsi (Persian Script Orthography).

Speaker Haddad-Adel (left) and Vice President Habibi (right), the previous and current presidents of the Academy

A certain Iranian law requires those equivalents to be used in all official communications of government bodies and government-owned companies, and in product names of all private companies.

Academy's presidents to this day, has been Hassan Habibi (a previous First Vice President) and Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel (the present Speaker of Parliament).

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