The 80th anniversary of Alik Daily, the first and only newspaper in Iran for Armenians, was celebrated at Armenian's community hall in Tehran.
The ceremony was attended bt Grigor Arakelian, Armenia's ambassador to Iran, Saeid Taghavi, head of the Religious Minority's Affairs in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Ali Dehbashi, chief editor of Bokhara Cultural-Arts magazine, Robert Beglerian, representative of Isfahan minorities in the Islamic Assembly, Dr Husseini, head of the Caucasus Research Foundation and Media Kashigar, translator and writer.
In his speech, Drenik Malekian, the editor-in-chief of the daily, praised the presence of luminaries in the celebration and stated he could not remember similar ceremonies for the daily during his post, even though the daily is as old as Etela'at (one of Iran's oldest newspapers).
"Although Alik is primarily concerned about Armenian's issues, it has constantly been committed to the Iranian society and has tried to promote its values," he said.
Head of the administrative affairs of religious minorities at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Saeid Taghavi termed the daily a global newspaper for the stretch of the topics it covers.
He went on to say that some 3500 journals are published in Iran with 100 of them being published daily.
Alik is the only Armenian daily newspaper in the country, however, there are some other Armenian editions published weekly, monthly or as quarterly journals, Iran Book News Agency reported.
