TEHRAN – The Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITO) has recently designed a website that provides citizens with free access to information in Iran.

The website will officially be launched by the ministers of Culture and Islamic Guidance and the Communications and Information Technology in the near future, Deputy Culture Minister for Press Affairs Hossein Entezami said on Tuesday.

“Any individual user can register on this website available at www.foia.iran.gov.ir and ask questions about any public or private sectors and receive a reply in less than 10 days,” Entezami, who is also the secretary of the commission on the website, said.

“All responses will also be published on the website, except those which bear personal and private information,” he added.

Ministries of Culture, Finance and Economic Affairs, Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare, Education, as well as Tehran’s Department of Environment, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran are among the organizations that have joined the project.

The departments of each ministry are also expected to join the project soon, he added.

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