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In addition to romantic themes in Ebtehaj’s poems, socialist politics was considered the center of his identity. Ebtehaj sympathized with the Tudeh Communist Party of Iran and spent some time in prison after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1979. Ebtehaj was finally released in 1984 after the famous poet Mohammad Hossein Shahryar, the president at the time, release him.
