Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

An Iranian man jumps over a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the ...

Thursday, March 20, 2025, marks the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, a holiday that's been celebrated for several millenniums, ...

Iran has marked its annual fire festival. Known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi, the ancient festival comes on the last ...

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

This year, against the backdrop of Ramadan and rising discontent, the celebrations took on an unmistakably political tone.

Every March, 300 million people from across the world, most notably the people of Iran and Central Asian countries celebrate ...

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 ...

street festivals, bonfires, fireworks, poetry and folk music. In Afghanistan and Central Asia, games originating in nomadic communities are popular, while in Iran, khane tekani (spring cleaning ...

A woman leaps over a bonfire during a fire festival at Ambleside Park in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 18, ...

I've worked for The Associated Press as a photographer since 1999. A lot of what I cover involves either Iran's government or ...

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 ...