Houshang Ebtehaj prominent poet dies at 94

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He sympathized with  Communist Tudeh Party, and paid the price after the the overthrow of  secular Western-backed monarchy in 1979. During the young Islamic Republic’s crackdown on leftists and liberals after the revolution, Ebtehaj landed in prison for nearly a year.

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