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evening.Fifty-two reciters and memorizers from across the world are participating in the competition, which will run for four days.Mehdi
Khamushi, director of the State Endowment and Charity Affairs Organization, the main organizer of the Quran competition, said that this
memorizers, which took part in the preliminary stage of the competition.Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaeili and
Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf were among the guests at the opening ceremony of the event.Earlier in December, the director of
the Quran Affairs Center of the State Endowment and Charity Affairs Organization, Hamid Majidimehr, said that the participants have been
cash in rials, the standard unit of money in Iran.Top winners in different categories will be awarded 1.5 billion rials (about $3,200 based
Republic of Iran Broadcasting records recitations every year to air during the fasting month.Due to the new coronavirus epidemic in the
country, the 2020 International Quran Competition was postponed and the pandemic forced the 2021 competition to go online.Photo: Overseas
reciters attend the 39th International Quran Competition at the Islamic Summit Conference Hall in Tehran on February 18, 2023
(Mehr/Saeidreza Razavi)MMS/YAW
