‘Forough Farokhzad” funeral ceremony

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Farrokhzad was returning from lunch at her mother’s house, on Feb. 14, 1967, when she died in a road accident. Hundreds attended her funeral, one of the last gatherings of Iran’s leading intellectuals before the revolution. She was buried at Zahir al-Dowleh cemetery in northern Tehran, under the February snow.

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