TEHRAN – A cultural delegation from Tajikistan’s Khujand arrived in Iran on Monday to visit Iran.
The group led by Tajik poet Farzaneh Khojandi visited the deputy director of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization, Mohammad-Hassan Talebian, and attended a poetry session at Tehran’s Andisheh Cultural Center in the afternoon.
They are scheduled to travel to Tabriz on Tuesday to visit the tomb of the 14th century Persian mystic and poet Kamal Khujandi.
They will leave Tabriz for Mashhad on Wednesday to visit the tomb of Ferdowsi in Tus and the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad.
Farzaneh Khojandi, 50, is widely regarded Tajikistan’s foremost living poet writing in Persian. She is renowned in Iran and Afghanistan as well as in Tajikistan.
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