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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
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Every firecracker set off during Nowrooz diminishes the police state's claims to omniscience.
Iran Bans Valentine's Day Melik Kaylan 2011
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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
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Forgot Nowrooz by Ali Mostofi on Tuesday, Mar 20, 2007 at 9: 49: 52 AM
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They will not show how 60 million Iranians celebrated Nowrooz and Sizdehbedar.
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I have already described one mode of exaction at the Nowrooz.
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Nowrooz for the Ked Khoda, or chief of the village, were the incumbrances charged upon our fief.
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But when a rival wife is introduced into an establishment her pin-money is decreased at Nowrooz
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– Nowrooz and the other festivals passed exactly as the year before, and were therefore deprived of any interest, from the absence of novelty.
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The day after Nowrooz the labour of the season began, and continued for a week subsequently.
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