Iran’s Khuzestan, Iraq’s Basra to Expand Quranic Cooperation

A meeting to draft a document on cooperation in Quranic activities between Iran’s Khuzestan Province and Iraq’s Basra Governorate was held in Basra on Saturday.

Hojat-ol-Islam Saeed Hardanian, head of the Quranic headquarters at the office of the Leader’s representative in Khuzestan, Hadi Abyar, director of cultural and artistic development in the Arvand Free Zone, Mahmoud Hamidawi, and representative of the province's Quranic institutions were present at the meeting.

Also attending were Ali Radzi Shahed, advisor to the head of the Iraqi Quranic Union, and Mustafa Zaki, head of the Basra Quranic Union office.

It was approved at the meeting to hold the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding on Quranic cooperation between Khuzestan and Basra in the coming weeks.

The two sides emphasized the development of Quranic cooperation centered on self-development, socialization, and civilization.

The main themes of the drafted memorandum of understanding are holding joint training courses for reciters and memorizers, implementing Quranic coexistence programs between the tribes of the two provinces, establishing an international center for the Holy Quran after a three-year period, and holding international events in Khuzestan, the Arvand Free Zone, and Basra.

It was also decided that joint training courses would begin next week.

Holding the first joint Quranic gathering in the middle of the lunar Hijri month of Shaaban, forming specialized working groups, training 1,000 Quranic elites in three years, holding 100 training courses, and establishing 40 Quranic fraternity centers are among other programs planned for the coming months.

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