Iranian cultural offices in different cities around the world celebrated the ancient festivities of Nowruz.

According to the public relations office of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), the word Nowruz itself literally means “new day” in the Persian language and the festivity marks the beginning of the solar year as well as the New Year on the Iranian national calendars, and has fallen on March 21 this year.

Iranian cultural offices in different cities and countries including Sweden, Armenia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Iraq, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, France, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Malaysia, Tajikistan (Khujand, Dushanbe), Pakistan (Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta), Moscow, Turkey (Istanbul, Ankara, Erzurum) and other centers celebrated the Nowruz festival for Iranians abroad by holding different spiritual and happy programs.
The Nowruz festival celebrates the rebirth of nature. This reawakening symbolizes the triumph of good over the evil forces of darkness, which are represented by winter. Nowruz is the point when the oppressive presence of the cold winter finally begins to recede with the commencement of the lively and hopeful spring.