Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature (Persian: فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی, pronounced ) is a body controlled by the Iranian government presiding over the use of the Persian language in Iran and other Persian speaking countries. The academy members are academics of Persian literature and linguistics from Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan.
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