TEHRAN -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has presented a bill for Iran’s membership in the International Association of Theater Critics (IATC).

The bill, which was proposed by the President’s Legal Office, would increase Iran’s participation in relevant international organizations and events, the president’s official website reported on Saturday.
The IATC was established in 1926 during the first international gathering of theater critics in Paris.
The meeting, which brought together critics from 26 different countries, had been organized by the Association of Professional French Theater Critics.
The aim of this meeting was to study how criticism is organized in different countries and how to establish permanent links between the various critics’ associations.