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Opinion: Iran, Where Poetry is a National Crime

Opinion: Iran, Where Poetry is a National Crime

Does a seminar on reforming the meter and rhyme schemes of Persian poetry violate “Islamic values” and threaten the foundations of the Islamic Republic in Iran? That is the view of the Islamic Court in Tehran which last month sentenced two poets to 9 and 11 years in...