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The serious issue of so many holidays should not be tolerated [...]" [1] Iran is one of the countries with the most public holidays in the world, [citation needed] with 28 holidays. Many holidays' exact dates are determined by the Islamic calendar, and therefore their Gregorian dates vary from year to year.
Al-Bīrūnī said: Haft-sin came from Jamshid since he destroyed the evil that made Persian lands weak, so on the first day of Iranian calendar people celebrated Norouz and they put 7 different symbolic items on their table as a sign of thanking nature for giving humans all they need.
The Zoroastrian calendar was originally a 360-day luni-solar calendar, and also without intercalation, with the result that the seasons and the seasonal festivals gradually drifted apart. A first calendar reform (of uncertain date) introduced five epagomenal days at the end of the year, with the result that each festival then had two dates: one ...
S ome 300 million people around the world are starting their annual celebration of renewal and harmony with nature in what is to them the biggest cultural holiday of the year, typically involving ...
The Iranian calendar or Iranian chronology (Persian: گاهشماری ایرانی, Gâh Ŝomâriye Irâni) are a succession of calendars created and used for over two millennia in Iran, also known as Persia. One of the longest chronological records in human history, the Iranian calendar has been modified many times for administrative purposes.
Nowruz (Persian: نوروز [noːˈɾuːz]) [t] is the Iranian New Year or Persian New Year. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Historically, it has been observed by Persians and other Iranian peoples , [ 31 ] but is now celebrated by many ethnicities worldwide.
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18 June – 2024 Razavi Khorasan earthquake: At least four people are killed by a magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Kashmar. [42] Nine people are killed during a fire caused by an electric short circuit at a hospital in Rasht. [43] An court sentences Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to one year in prison for propaganda against the Iranian ...