Shabhaye Par Setareh reached Tabriz

The special program Shabhaye Por Setareh with narration by Haj Hossein Yekta, coinciding with Sacred Defense Week, will be held from Wednesday, 25 September 2024, for three nights at the Vadi Rahmat Martyrs’ Cemetery in Tabriz. This program will begin each night after Maghrib and Isha prayers and will be broadcast live on the Quran Network, Channel 3 (IRIB TV3), and Sahand TV.

According to the Hamaseh and Resistance reporter of Young Journalists Club, Shabhaye Por Setareh is one of the prominent cultural events in the field of commemorating the Sacred Defense and honoring the martyrs, which has been held periodically in different provinces of the country in recent years. This program, focusing on field storytelling, combining visual arts, sound and lighting, and using the spiritual spaces of martyrs’ cemeteries, seeks to familiarize today’s generation with the sacrifices of combatants, martyrs, and people of different regions of the country. The presence of a Sacred Defense narrator such as Haj Hossein Yekta has increased the impact of this program.

This year, the Vadi Rahmat Martyrs’ Cemetery in Tabriz is hosting this spiritual program. This choice has been made considering the historical and revolutionary background of the people of East Azerbaijan, as well as their bravery from before the Islamic Revolution to today. In this special program, part of the memories, biographies, and epics of the province’s renowned martyrs — including Martyr Ayatollah Al-Hashem, Martyr Raeisi, and other martyrs who defended the homeland  will be recounted.

Shabhaye Por Setareh was first held in 2019 at Behesht Zahra Martyrs’ Cemetery in Tehran and in subsequent years reached cities such as Qom, Isfahan, Shiraz, and now Tabriz. The main goal of this event is to promote the culture of sacrifice, preserve national unity, and counter movements that attempt to create division between different ethnic groups and regions of the country. These narratives are, in fact, a revival of the cultural, spiritual, and identity capital of the Iranian nation, which still flows from the soil of the martyrs’ cemeteries.