The Sixth International Festival of Revolutionary Poems kicked off on Tuesday at the Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Fars Province.
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Several poets from Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and Azerbaijan took part in the opening ceremony, ISNA reported.
Iranian poet Gholamali Mahdikhani read a sonnet themed on the Sacred Defense (1980-88 Iraqi-imposed war on Iran).
"We poets should respect the Islamic Revolution of 1979," another poet Alireza Qazveh told the gathering.