Commemoration of Malek-o-Shoara Bahar, national poet of Iran.
1951 CE
Fun Facts
Bahar died of tuberculosis. He was exiled and imprisoned multiple times for writing against tyranny. His tomb is at Zahir-od-Dowleh Cemetery in Tehran. Bahar said: 'The Persian language will live on through my poetry.'
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