The Iranian regime’s Central Bank issued a report on July 27th saying, “11.2% of people over the age of six are completely illiterate. 1.5% is able to read and write, and around 21% have elementary education and 43% have secondary school education.” According to this report 22.5% have university education.
In this regard a regime official said the number of complete illiterates in Iran are 9,456,000 people, adding labor children, disabled children, children with bad caretakers and orphans are usually deprived of education.