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23.12.2009
IRAN NAMES NEW PRESIDENT OF ACADEMY OF ARTS
As reported by Ali Moallem Damghani at Press TV Iran, Iran\\\' s Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution has appointed poet Ali Moallem Damghani to the position of President of the Academy of Arts.
The Council named Moallem on Tuesday, 22 December to replace defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Mousavi, head of Iranīs Academy of Arts since its establishment in 1998, had refused to accept the results of the June presidential elections that brought Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power for a second presidential term, and faces pressure after nationwide protests against the government.
The state-funded Academy of Arts was established for the purposes of safeguarding Iranīs Islamic and national heritage and art, establishing policies and proposing strategies, accessing the latest findings and innovations and confronting the threats of invasive cultures
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