Happy New Year Mr President
U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed the Persian New Year (1390, which started on Monday) with a Nawroz festival (also spelt nowroz, nowruz and several other ways) falls on spring equinox and is — it is a public holiday in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kashmir and Kyrgyzstan, according to Wikipedia. But Obama’s message was addressed almost entirely to Iranians. “This is a holiday for the Iranian people to spend time with friends and family,” Obama said, launching a discussion of the ...
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