The most delicate and powerful device to work against this domination is poetry.

Even in its most romantic forms, it acts against domination and against suppression.

Just as Mohammad Mokhtari writes and writes, with so much poetry, that the ruling system has no choice but to eliminate him—arrogantly oblivious that they killed the poet, but they could not kill his poetry.

(Mohammad Mokhtari, poet, writer and activist was kidnapped in December 1998 and his dead body was found a week later. This was one of the so-called Chain Murders of intellectuals by The Ministry of Intelligence in Iran.)[7]

Film credit: Impressions of a city, Tehran Today by Khosrow Sinai (1977)

Voiceover: Mohammad Mokhtari

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