Nowruz

Similarly, the educational adventure game Nouruz was also produced for a foreign audience so that "people can understand the Iranian culture and see that Iran has two thousand years of history" (Sisler, 2013a, p.

"In case Maliki did not attend the Parliament session on Thursday, he might attend at the parliament after the Nouruz Holiday which will last for the whole week," he stressed.

President's Nouruz greeting to the "Islamic Republic of Iran" (March 21, 2009)--in which he urged Iran "to take its rightful place in the community of nations," and implicitly recognized both the regime's leadership and its Islamic character--marked a significant departure from the U.S.

That is, the manner in which Obama conducted his own presidential campaign, his greeting to the Iranian people on the occasion of Nouruz (the Persian New Year), and his June address to the Muslim world in Cairo?

The violence in Hangu, a mountain town near the Afghan border, erupted after members of the minority Shi'ite community came under fire as they hoisted a flag on a mosque to mark the Persian New Year festival of Nouruz.