Iran Sepid (Persian: ایران سپید; which means white Iran) is a special newspaper for the visually impaired, published in Persian and in Braille script in Tehran. It is owned by the Iranian Cultural Press Institute [fa]. The founder of this newspaper, which was first published on November 18, 1996, is Fereydoun Varedi Nezhad [fa], who was the former managing director of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). It has been claimed that White Iran is considered as "the first braille newspaper in the world".[1][2]
