In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency, Ms. Berzina said she was surprised to see the great deal of attention a country’s highest-ranking official would give to poetry and literature.
She was talking about one of Ayatollah Khamenei’s meetings with Iranian cultural figures, professors of the Persian literature, and foreign poets to which she had been invited.
“Iran is the only country holding poem-reading meetings at the highest level. In Russia, there is never a ceremony to see the president, as the country’s supreme official, bringing poets together and caring about literature this much,” she noted.
Berzina, a professional translator that also writes poets in Persian, said she was stunned to see that Iran’s leader himself is a poet paying great attention to literature.
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