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  • The Iranian state has pronounced against unauthorized mingling of the sexes, rap music, rock music, Western music, women playing in bands, too-bright nail polish, laughter in hospital corridors, ancient Persian rites-of-spring celebrations Nowrooz, and even the mention of foreign food recipes in state media.

    Iran Bans Valentine's Day Melik Kaylan 2011

  • Every firecracker set off during Nowrooz diminishes the police state's claims to omniscience.

    Iran Bans Valentine's Day Melik Kaylan 2011

  • Yet the regime expends considerable energy suppressing the Persian, as opposed to Islamic, identity by discouraging Nowrooz and other elements of the culture that date from the pre-Muslim era of jahiliyya , the so-called time of ignorance.

    Iran Bans Valentine's Day Melik Kaylan 2011

  • Forgot Nowrooz by Ali Mostofi on Tuesday, Mar 20, 2007 at 9: 49: 52 AM

    War Without Win: A White Paper On Iran 2007

  • They will not show how 60 million Iranians celebrated Nowrooz and Sizdehbedar.

    More Kidnapping vs Soft Power 2007

  • I have already described one mode of exaction at the Nowrooz.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • Nowrooz for the Ked Khoda, or chief of the village, were the incumbrances charged upon our fief.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • But when a rival wife is introduced into an establishment her pin-money is decreased at Nowrooz

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • Nowrooz and the other festivals passed exactly as the year before, and were therefore deprived of any interest, from the absence of novelty.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • The day after Nowrooz the labour of the season began, and continued for a week subsequently.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

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