Iran President: Societies suffer due to lack of true knowledge of man

Tehran, June 20, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said the world was suffering because societies lacked true knowledge about man’s nature and based things on materialistic values.

Making the remarks in the opening of the 1st international gathering of the Islamic World Publishers here in Tehran, he said those who relied on anti-religion and anti-humanistic notions in societies to carry out their criminal acts, in reality cut any kind of connections with the origin of all life.

He described as a divine mission the production and promotion of culture and thought in societies and stressed the importance of the work of publishers.

He further said that five hegemonic world countries have set up a structure so-called the United Nations Security Council which is originally based on oppression and injustice.

He pointed to the silence of the Security Council member states in face of the brutal atrocities committed by the Zionist regime against ships carrying aid to the Palestinians entangled in Gaza and said the international body was adopting such a policy while it always take stands against independence-seeking moves by the nations and confronts independent states.

The 1st int’l conference of the Islamic World Publishers started here Sunday morning.

The two-day conference which is attended by publishers from 32 Islamic states, comprises of five expert panels on the sidelines to discuss situation of electronic publishing in the Islamic world, publishing of the Holy Quran as well as rights of Muslim authors, publishers and translators./end