ANTHOLOGY OF IRANIAN CONTEMPORARY POETRY PUBLISHED IN ARMENIA

Mehr News Agency, Iran
June 20 2006

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) – An anthology of Iranian contemporary poetry
entitled "The Rise of the Prophet" was published in Armenia.

Translated into Armenian by Edward Haqwerdian, the book contains the
works of post-Islamic Revolution bards, including Mehdi Soheili,
Ali Musavi Garmarudi, Qeisar Aminpur, Bahman Salehi, and Tahereh
Saffarzadeh.

The introduction written by Iran’s Cultural Attache Reza Atufi reads
that Iran’s Islamic Revolution has helped raise the status of Persian
poetry and literature throughout the world.

The book gives a strong warning to those, who have recently desecrated
Prophet Muhammad (S) in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.