Encoder Hidden Intialized to zero in each iteration

nlp
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I was reading Translation with Seq2Sq network with attention here

I don’t understand why encoder hidden is re-initialised in each iteration?
Shouldn’t encoder_hidden to be initialised only once?
See the following code snippet:

def train(input_tensor, target_tensor, encoder, decoder, encoder_optimizer, decoder_optimizer, criterion, max_length=MAX_LENGTH):
    encoder_hidden = encoder.initHidden()

def trainIters():
  for iter in range(1, n_iters + 1):
        loss = train(input_tensor, target_tensor, encoder, decoder, encoder_optimizer, decoder_optimizer, criterion)