TEHRAN -- UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova will be coming to Iran next week to attend the Isfahan Cultural Week, which will be held from April 23 to 30.
Foreign diplomats and a numbers of foreign ambassadors in Iran have also been invited to attend the event, which has been organized by the Isfahan Municipality, Isfahan mayor’s advisor Mehdi Jamalinejad told the Persian service of IRNA on Monday.
A vast array of programs has been arranged for the event, which will be covered by a large number of journalists from across Iran, he added.
Baha ad-Din Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Amili, the Safavid-era scholar and astronomer who also is known as Sheik-i Bahai, will be commemorated as part of the programs on April 23, which is the National Sheik-i Bahai Day of Sheikh Bahaii.
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