Iran generally doesn't strictly censor books: publishers must submit titles to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (yes, the name should give you a good idea of their sensibilities ...) and obtain official permission to publish the book; rather than censoring or prohibiting titles they don't like, the Ministry generally simply keeps them in a limbo by not (yet ... often for many, many years) granting permission to publish.
At IBNA they now report on some of the numbers, which suggest the Ministry has a whole lot of work to do (and gives them an easy excuse as to the backlog/delays):
At IBNA they now report on some of the numbers, which suggest the Ministry has a whole lot of work to do (and gives them an easy excuse as to the backlog/delays):
We receive about 180 books a day waiting for publishing permission from the Culture Ministry. This amounts to 5000 or 6000 books a month.Interesting, however, that they here acknowledge they have actually: "rejected a book by Mas'oud Mir-Kazemi"; interesting too, that that author was a minister in the Ahmadinejad regime .....