TEHRAN, October 12 - Iranians commemorate National Day of Hafez, a 14th-century Persian poet and mystic highly revered by by famous writers and scholars all across the world.
TEHRAN. YJC -- A group of young musicians, architecture students, painters and sculptors from the German city of Weimar is scheduled to travel to Iran during April to visit Shiraz, which is home to the tomb of Hafez, the favorite poet of German literary figure Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
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