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Funeral rites began Tuesday after the late Iranian President and the country's Foreign Minister died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Thousands Attend Raisi's Funeral, as Others Celebrate Skip to ...
Iran has never acknowledged that mass executions took place; amnesty International says 5,000 Iranians, possibly more, were executed in the first decade after the revolution.
Khordadgân: Celebration of the 6th day of Iranian calendar. Khordad is one of the Izadans name which means completeness. In this day people used to go near the river or a sea to thank God for everything and they gave each other flowers as a sign of happiness. Bahmanagân: Also maintained by Iranian Muslims until the Mongol invasion. The ...
Iran on Tuesday summoned the Australian ambassador in Iran over the publication of photos from a celebration in the embassy to mark Australia's LGBTQ national day on Sept. 1, the state-run IRNA ...
Iranian Islamic Republic Day (Persian: روز جمهوری اسلامی) is Farvardin 12, known as Ruz e Jomhuri ye Eslāmi. [1] The day is a national [2] and a public holiday in Iran. [3] [4] [5] It marks the day that the results of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Republic referendum were announced. The results announced were a 98.2% vote for the ...
Cyrus the Great Day (Persian: روز کوروش بزرگ Rūz-e Kuroš-e Bozorg) is an unofficial holiday in Iran.Secular and nationalist in nature, it commemorates the legacy of Cyrus II of Persia, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE.
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The Persian name of the festival consists of čahāršanbe (چهارشنبه), the Persian word for Wednesday, and suri (), which has two meanings; it may mean "festive" [2] and it may also mean "scarlet" (in traditional Persian and some current local dialects in Iran), which stems from the reddish theme of fire.