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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Charlie Duffield

What is Nowruz? How and when is the festival celebrated by Iranian people around the world?

Whilst in the Northern Hemisphere, as March bows out and heralds the first day of spring during the vernal equinox, for 300 million people around the world, it’s the start of the new year as well.

Nowruz has been celebrated in the Persian diaspora for more than 3,000 years.

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