Iran on Saturday, May 5 banned advertisement of all foreign goods and services which have a domestic rival, a first move in line with the Supreme Leader's decree for promoting Iran-made products, Fars News Agency reported.
Iran's Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution in an approval on environmental advertisement in cities and intercity highways banned all types of commercials and advertisement of foreign goods and services.
"According to the approval of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, advertising foreign goods and services with domestic rivals is banned," Secretary of the Council of Public Culture Mansour Vaezi said, adding that the ban even extends to those Iranian "goods and services with a foreign name".
The law also covers all domestic goods and products manufactured through joint ventures between Iranian and foreign companies, Vaezi said, underlining that all such goods, products and services should bear an Iranian name in accordance with the law.
Meantime, the official mentioned that advertisement of all those foreign goods and services which do not have an Iranian rival is also subject to certain rules and restrictions.
"Advertisement of such foreign goods and services is allowed only in Persian and they should not be advertised on city and intercity highway billboards, pedestrian bridges and electronic boards," the official added.
The approval is deemed as a first move in support of domestic production as ordered by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on the turn of the Iranian new year.
In a televised address on the occasion of the Iranian New Year on March 20, Ayatollah Khamenei named the new Iranian year as the "Year of National Production, Supporting Iranian Labor and Capital", and once again underlined the importance of efforts to bolster the country's economic progress.
Ayatollah Khamenei said "Economic Jihad", which was the slogan of the previous year, is never-ending, adding that one important aspect of economic issues is "domestic production."
