To discover culture's exact share of the country's budget, one of the first steps is first to identify culture's subfields precisely. In Iran's Budget Law, culture has eight subfields. But some cultural activities exist in the country to which budget is allocated but which are not seen among these eight subfields. For example, appropriations are allocated in the country for cultural issues related to the family and women. These issues fall entirely under public culture, but in the Budget Law they are not counted under culture.
The Budget Law has also listed all cultural and artistic items under the heading "culture and art"; whereas the category of books and literature has taken large appropriations and has not been mentioned correctly in the Budget Law.
Based on Namafar's classification, culture has 12 subfields and the country's cultural budget is about 74 thousand billion tomans. Among the 12 cultural categories, the "propagation of religion and culture" branch, with more than 20 thousand billion tomans, has more budget than the other branches. Also, the "improvement of cultural businesses" branch has taken the smallest budget.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian