The Minister of Cultural Heritage gifted Rumi’s Masnavi
Seyyed Mohammad Reza Salehi Amiri, the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, said at a ceremony that we registered Rumi’s Masnavi with UNESCO jointly with Turkey and Afghanistan. Many people criticized us, asking why we are trying to register it jointly with neighboring countries.
He then loudly exclaimed, ‘We had a statement, and after a decade, we are repeating it today: Shams and Rumi belong to Iranians and the world, and they do not belong to just one place.’