Iranian Authorities Reveal A 500,000 Cache Of "Banned Books"

According to ISNA 500,000 "banned" books were discovered by the authorities in Iran

A wide variety of books, from Homer’s Ilyad to Persian poetry and Albert Camus’ The Fall.

Copies of a book about a famous Iranian film, The Parrot made in 1978, a year before the Islamic revolution.

In this photo the book on the left is the Persian translation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and the book on the right is George Bernard Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell

Many books on Marxism and about Iranian secular political thought and nationalist prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

Warehouse with banned books in Iran 17.02.2018