Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886–1951) was an Iranian poet, scholar, professor, politician, journalist, and historian. Of half-Georgian parentage, his poems concerned the Persian past and emphasized semi-secular nationalism. As a writer, he was widely known as Malek osh-Sho’arā and Malek osh-Sho’arā Bahār, meaning “poet laureate” or “king of poets.”
The Cry of Iran
December 2025:A thousand years have passed since strangers came,Yet still my homeland bleeds from ancient wounds. The fire of our fathers dimmed,Our voice drowned beneath foreign storms. O Iran, rise again from sorrow—Your spirit is older than their swords.
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