Tehran: Recently the Government of Iran had issued contracts to Chinese publishers for printing the Holy Quran and this seems to have caused trouble to the government. The Mehr News agency has reported that the copies that have arrived Iran are full with spelling mistakes.
Many publishers in Iran had asked the issue of contracts to Chinese publishers as the cost for publishing was found to be low. Ahmad Haji-Sharif, the director of the department of evaluation of Holy Quran mentioned that the books are littered with mistakes and cannot be approved.
He said that " The copies were cheaply made in China and was sent at a much higher price than what it cost for printing the book". He added that "If customers find that the actual cost of the book is much less and the current one is full of mistakes they will opt for the Quran published in Iran and with no mistakes.
Iran has high quality printing presses and publishing firms, with around 1,000 of them publishing the Quran, he said. "So why should we send our publications outside Iran?" he asked.
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