Iranians celebrate ancient festival marking end of Persian New Year holidays
ESFARAYEN, Iran — Iranians flocked to parks and orchards to mark Sizdeh Bedar, an ancient festival that predates Islam and goes back thousands of years to the time when Zoroastrianism was the predominant religion of Persia. Iran’s hard-line ruling clerics have discouraged many pre-Islamic rituals, but they’ve been unable to put Iranians off the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, and its ending celebration of Sizdeh Bedar./ ( Vahid Salemi / Associated Press ) - Iranian families picnic while marking the ancient festival of Sizdeh Bedar, or public ...
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