Center for Interreligious Dialogue

The Center for Interreligious Dialogue ( Persian مرکز گفتگوي اديان; engl. Center for Interreligious Dialogue; Abbreviation CID ) is an institution of the Organization for Islamic Culture and Relations ( Sāzmān-i Farhang wa-Irtibāṭāt-i Islāmī ; ICRO), which belongs to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is responsible for foreign cultural policy. Ali Mohammad Helmi (علي محمد حلمي) is the director of the Center for Interreligious Dialogue.

The director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights in Vienna , Manfred Nowak , visited Iran in 2011 and gave a lecture and discussion at the CID on “the norms of the Council of Europe and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on religious freedom, at the 'Iranian Islamic Human Rights Commission' with their scientists on the theory and practice of the prohibition of torture on an international level "

"At the moment only one state institute is involved in the interreligious dialogue, the Center for Interreligious Dialogue (CID) assigned to the ICRO."

Web links

• cid.icro.ir (Official Website)
• en.cid.icro.ir: Fars News Agencys interview with Dr. AM Helmi
• fa.london.icro.ir: Dr. Ali Muhammad Helmi cultural counselor at the Embassy of Islamic republic of Iran Speaking at the ceremony congratulated the new academic year (in London)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ or Center for Interreligious Dialogue & Civilization (see website ) / Center for Interfaith Dialogue / Center of Interfaith Dialogue / etc.
2. ↑ cf. fa.cid.icro.ir & web links
3. ↑ Austrian-Iranian human rights contacts in Tehran ( Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs )
4. ↑ welt-sichten.org: Dialogue under state supervision (Fatemeh Kamali Chirani)