The 17th National Theatre Festival Resistance - Conquest of Khorramshahr started with the participation of provincial officials and artists On tuesday 17 June and was ended on Friday 20 June.
According
to Public Relations of Department Of Culture Khuzestan , 220 Groups from throughout
Iran Participated on 17th National
Theatre Festival Resistance
- Conquest of Khorramshahr
that 25 groups reached to the final stage. This
festival held in Khorramshahr to depict the heroism of
martyrs eight years
of sacred defense and especially inhabitants of
Khorramshahr .These theaters displayed in theater saloons
of Khorramshahr and Abadan.
Also a group from Iraq participated in this festival that pointed to the issue
of oppression of the Iraq Baath and chemical bombardment of Halabja.