Iranian radio reports official Nobel ceremony

Text of report by Iranian radio on 10 December

The winners of Nobel prizes in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and economics will receive their awards in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, today. And Mrs Shirin Ebadi will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2003 in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

Mrs Ebadi will receive the prize, which is 1.3m dollars, equivalent to 1.4bn tomans, from the chairman of the Nobel Committee.

The Nobel Peace Prize has previously been awarded to Yasir Arafat, the head of the Palestinian self-rule authority; Shimon Peres, the former foreign minister of the Zionist regime; Yitzhaq Rabin, the former prime minister of the Zionist regime; Jimmy Carter, the former American president; and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the former Soviet Union.

The Nobel prize was established in 1895, on the suggestion of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.