Shahriyar Poetry Night was held in Armenia

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The literature meeting ‘Shahriyar’s poetry night’ was held at Iran’s Cultural Center in Armenia attended by a group of poets, literary figures, professors, scholars and students of Persian language and literature to review the literature of the Islamic Revolution.

  According to IBNA correspondent, quoting from the office of the Public Relations and Islamic Communications  that the ceremony aimed to introducing  the literature of the Islamic Revolution and the works of Shahriyar in particular to the guests by showing a film of him reciting a poem in the presence of the Supreme Leader. Majid Meshki, the Iranian Cultural Attaché, delivered a speech on comparing the history of Persian poetry and literature at Pahlavi era with that of the Islamic Revolution and pointed to the changes in Shahriyar’s poems before and after the Islamic Revolution.

Iran’s Cultural Attaché in Armenia stated in his speech that most poets and literary figures as well as thinkers were either in jail or exiled in Pahlavi era due to Reza Shah’s dictatorship, and this happened at the time when many great poets of the country like Farrokhi Yazdi and Mirzadeh Eshqi lost their lives to the regime.