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Iran: Bloggers remember Shamlou

Written byFred Petrossian
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Posted 24 July 2010 15 years ago

Several bloggers wrote about Ahmad Shamlou‘s 10th anniversary. Shamlou was probabaly the most influential poet in modern Iran. VatanParast, Iranian blogger, quotes [fa] Shamlou: “underdeveloped countries are like people who are sleeping.”

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