Winter in Iran

Persian festival

fire jumping festival, celebrated in Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan

annual film festival held in Tehran, Iran

Sadeh ( also transliterated as Sade), is an Iranian festival that dates back to the Achaemenid Empire. Sadeh is celebrated 50 days before Nowruz. Sadeh in Persian means "hundred" and refers to the one hundred days and nights remaining to the beginning of spring. Sadeh is a mid-winter festival that was celebrated with grandeur and magnificence in ancient Persia. It was a festivity to honor fire and to defeat the forces of darkness, frost, and cold.

annual anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution

Iranian multi-day holiday

Sepandārmazgān () or Espandegān (), is an ancient Iranian day of women with Zoroastrian roots. This day is dedicated to Spənta Ārmaiti (Avestan for "Holy Devotion", ' in Middle Persian, ' or ''''), the Amesha Spenta who is given the domain of "earth". The date of the festival as observed in the Sassanid era was on the 5th day of the month Spandarmad. When the name of the day and the month of the day were the same, a "name-feast" celebration was always done. According to the testimony of al-Biruni, in the 11th century CE there was a festival when the names of the day and the month were the same

anniversary of the murder of three Iranian university students