Jashnhaye tarikhi har melati yadavar shadiha va shokoofihast, ama barayeh ma Iranian Nowrooz na tanha yadavare shokooh va shokoofihast, balkeh in jashn, asasan, yadavar hoviat tarikhi va mellie ma mibashad...
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All nations' festive occasions are a reminder of past glories and happy times.
For us, the people of Iran, Nowrooz is that and more...
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Reza Pahlavi’s Message On the Occasion of
Persian New Year 2006 (Nowrooz 1385)
March 20th, 2006
All nations’ festive occasions are a reminder of past glories and happy times. For us, the people of Iran, Nowrooz is that and more: It is a reminder of our national and historical identity; it connects our ancient heritage to today and the future, having endured through foreign attacks and domination of anti-Iranian orders; it is thus the mark of the continuity of our national history.
This year, Nowrooz comes under conditions where the anti-Iranian policies of the Islamic regime have brought our homeland to the edge of an abyss; a perilous precipice more terrifying than the war with Iraq, one which could destroy our economic life and national assets.
Desperate to find a diversion from its inability to provide welfare and tranquility, this regime may once again find war a godsend. We must ask however:
A regime which demoted our nation to the level of a submissive congregation, that derided our national rituals and reduced the status of our people, particularly women, to that of minors;
a regime that denies the legitimate rights of workers, teachers, farmers and other hardworking citizens, despite a five-fold increase in oil income, and, instead, spends our national income on terrorist organizations and state-sponsors of terrorism;
a regime that violently suppresses the most basic social rights (even the right to show our joy on national holidays and festivities such as Nowrooz and Chaharshanbeh Souri); a regime that has broken the limbs and pens of our great poets and writers;
is it not that regime’s only demonstrable talent to bellow “nuclear technology is our national rightâ€