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Iranians celebrate Persian New Year in first wartime Nowruz in decades

· By Maziar Motamedi
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Tehran, Iran – Iran is celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, during wartime for the first time since the 1980s, when neighbouring Iraq launched a full-scale invasion, leading to eight years of war.

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