press, the mass media, and the teaching of their literature at schools, is freely permitted 5) Moreover, Article 19 of the Constitution has mentioned that the Iranian people enjoy equal rights, regardless of the tribe or ethnic group to which they belong. Color, race, language, and other such considerations shall not be grounds for and different treatment. 6) After all, Article 30 of the Constitution stipulates that the government is responsible for providing the means for public education for everyone up to the end of high school. 7) Articles 10, 33, 77, 97 and 110 of the Charter of Citizenship Rights have also consolidated the rights of religious communities and in this regard, have banned any type of discrimination and spreading hatred against them and other ethnic, social and political groups. The rights to inter-cultural communications have been also duly recognized and emphasized. 8) Right now there are more than 93 religious communities' schools, operating while members of those communities enjoy the right to study in anyother public or private school of their choice. They also have the opportunity to study at various academic levels without any discrimination. Besides, in order to protect the literature and culture of our ethnic and religious communities at the university level, the Ministry of Science and High Educationhas added the higher education courses for other languages other than Persian (such as Arabic, Azeri and Kurdish) at Iranian universities as well. 9. As part of our endeavor to strengthen and safeguard our ethnic communities’ languages, the provincial TV networks has been established in all provinces in Iran which perform their programs in local languages and accents. Universities located in different