TEHRAN – Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools, asenior education official said, after the country’s Supreme Leader saidearly learning of the language opened the way to a Western “culturalinvasion”
“Teaching English in government and non-government primary schools in theofficial curriculum is against laws and regulations,” Mehdi Navid-Adham,head of the state-run High Education Council, told state television late onSaturday.