The event got underway with the attendance of Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi and Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Vladan Vukosavljevi?.
Publishers from over 50 countries, including Germany, China, Hungary, Austria, Russia and Iraq, are attending this year's book fair.
The Quintessence International Publishing Group and the Walter de Gruyter GmbH from Germany, the New York-based company Demos Medical Publishing, as well as the CRC Press, LLC, a publishing group from the U.S. are among those publishers who are taking part in the Tehran International Book Fair.
More than 500 foreign publishers are participating in this year's event. The Book Fair is being held in Mosalla, in an area of 4,300 square meters.
This year, 20 publishers from Serbia and 18 participants from Tunisia are special guests of the international fair.
