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Known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi, the festival comes in the hours just before the Wednesday before Nowruz, which is the Persian New Year. An Iranian woman jumps over a bonfire ...

About 100 people gathered in downtown Cornelius on Wednesday to celebrate an ancient tradition for the Persian New Year.

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Festival organizers called Nowruz a “universal moment of rebirth and renewal,” a cultural welcoming of spring.

Known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi, the festival comes in the hours just before the Wednesday before Nowruz, which is the Persian New Year. To celebrate, people light bonfires, set off ...

An Iranian man holds up a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran ...