The Iran Language Institute

The Iran Language Institute was founded in 1979. According to its constitution the ILI has been assigned with the national mission of developing foreign language learning. The institute is a state-owned, non-profit organization with headquarters in Tehran and teaching schools in 32 cities across the nation. The ILI offers language courses in Farsi, English, French, German, Espanish and Arabic. It enrolls around 100,000 students every term, and 4 terms every year. Classes are taught by around 1,000 carefully trained and selected instructors, with degrees in Farsi, English, French, German and Arabic. The ILI director is Mr. Ghasem Haghighat Talab.