Mostafa Bigham, with the secretariat of Iran’s Council for Development of the Quranic Culture, said related officials in all provinces are tasked with making efforts to make sure the objectives of the National Quran Memorization Plan are achieved, Fars reported.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed in a speech in 2011 that the society should take a direction so that at least 10 million people learn the Holy Quran by heart.

Hence, related Quranic bodies in the country devised a plan, called National Quran Memorization Plan, aimed at promoting memorization of the Holy Book and training 10 million memorizers in a few years.

Different organizations and institutions including the Center for Coordination, Development and Promotion of Quranic Activities, the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, and the Ministry of Education have been making efforts to materialize the objectives of the plan.